My fascination with “AYURVEDA”
My fascination with “AYURVEDA” AYUR=LIFE VEDA=KNOWLEDGE Namaste Everyone I’ve developed a healthy fascination on the Ayurveda lifestyle as I have been educating myself on it over the past 2 years and I am still learning. Its beauty is in its holistic approach to life, not following a strictly defined set of rules covering diets. It looks to connect your way of life to a physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing. Your whole self-works within these different functions to [...]
Healthy Grab & Go Food
Hectic lives, busy schedules, not enough time in the day, there are numerous reasons why we just follow the line of least resistance when it comes to our food preparation and consumption. It’s far too simple for us to choose the easy, and sometimes cheaper, option of grabbing some fast food to cover our meal requirements. We also more frequently these days, with the aid of technology, resort to ordering in food from the vast array of outlets [...]
“Back to School”
"Back to School with Moni's"
‘The Importance of Making Healthy & Easy Snacks During Ramadan”
If there’s one thing Moni’s takes seriously, its home cooked clean eating shared with family and friends. What better time of year to capture all of this than the Holy Month of Ramadan, a wonderful time of year where communities, families and friends gather together to share meals and goodwill. Fasting in our climate is not simple and our bodies crave nutrients and minerals at the break of fast. Moni’s whole ethos is to ensure that a healthy [...]
“How to Stay Healthy & Fit During the Summer Time”
After a reasonably wet and cool winter, the temperature is rising and we know the inevitable summer heat is just around the corner. There are some of us who embrace the heat and spend our weekends outdoors in and around water. But many of us hibernate indoors, in homes only venturing out to the malls. Both approaches are completely understandable differing human instincts to living in exceptionally hot climates. Here’s the thing, there is no reason why any [...]
“Healthy Eating During Pregnancy”
One of the most precious moments in our lives is the beautiful miracle that is childbirth. We have, over millennia, evolved our biological functions to adapt to our existence on this planet and ensuring that the ecology around us is geared towards our needs. The most successful of our achievements is our ability to reproduce and to populate this planet with our species, Homo Sapiens. In our contemporary era we have been able to fine tune the needs [...]
“YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT”
We’ve all heard it countless times, but it’s one of those facts that truly leads to a better quality of life. Every year new research identifies links with better health as we get older and the food we’ve consumed over our lifetime. Coupled with an exercise regime, our food intake either plays a key role in assisting our body to remain fit and healthy or, with the wrong choices, assists in its steady decline. It impacts every facet [...]
“How to Stay Healthy During the Summer & Holidays”
Summer is now in full swing and most of the UAE has gone or is going on holiday. Whilst we travel to the many locations around this globe, we can sometimes enter a wholly different state of mind as we jet around the world. Something akin to the ‘Twilight Zone’. Sure, we should all learn to relax, unwind and enjoy ourselves as much as possible. But what tends to happen, and believe it or not studies have been [...]