Tag: Buttermilk

Replace your commercial hair products with these natural hair masks that are safe and healthy for your hair. These masks not only moisturize and strengthen your hair but also reverse the damaged caused by chemical-laden hair products. Egg yolk and avocado, buttermilk and lemon juice, milk and honey, and mango butter masks are a few DIY hair masks that will give you soft and healthy hair!

Buttermilk is a probiotic that can improve your skin and hair health. Apply buttermilk on your skin to moisturize and soften the skin, treat symptoms of eczema, manage sunburns, reduce acne breakouts, and heal wounds. Buttermilk can also be applied to your scalp to strengthen hair, promote hair growth, and fight dandruff.

Dishes like omelettes stuffed with hamburger patties and prime ribs are already high in calorie and saturated fat content. Since these are almost always accompanied by sides like buttermilk pancakes or mashed potatoes, the calorie meter shoots up even higher, making one meal at a restaurant carry at least 1800-1900 calories. This is almost equivalent to an entire day's worth of an average healthy person's calorie-intake.

Although the human body has the ability to detoxify itself, the foods that we eat on a daily basis makes self-detoxing hard. To ease...

Buttermilk is a nutritious drink which can give you calcium, protein as well as important minerals and vitamins. It may also suit those are lactose intolerant. Applying it topically can reduce wrinkles and rejuvenate sun-damaged skin. Ayurveda considers it to be good for digestion and uses it to prevent diabetes and treat hemorrhoids and insomnia. Buttermilk can also lower cholesterol and blood pressure, help if you have diarrhea or IBS, and prevent yeast infections.

Healthy eating sounds tricky and tough to follow, but it isn’t so. You can eat right by just using the regular ingredients in your kitchen in the right manner. Most of these foods have multiple health benefits. Apple cider vinegar is good for digestion, so is yogurt and buttermilk. Coconut oil reduces hunger, while honey is a good home remedy for cough. Last but not the least, lemons will help with weight loss by stimulating digestive enzymes.

If you’re out of baking powder, combine acid and baking soda. The duo will have the same leavening action in baked goods. To use molasses, buttermilk, and yogurt, reduce other liquids in the recipe. Cream of tartar is a dry acid, so you won’t have to adjust liquids. Vinegar and lemon juice are also very acidic. Self-rising flour already has baking powder, so you can use it in place of all-purpose flour and skip the acids.

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Simple home-made masks can work wonders on tanned skin. Try an egg white and honey mask. Egg white bleaches your skin and makes it smooth by tightening pores. Honey’s antibacterial properties and antioxidants can slow aging and make your skin glow. Mix 1 egg white with 1 Tbsp honey. Apply this on your tanned skin, and leave it on for an hour. Then, wash off with water and a gentle face wash.

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Despite our healthy diets, incompatible food combinations can lead to low immunity, digestive upsets, and allergies. Don't combine milk with veggies, eggs, pulses, or fruit to avoid disturbing digestive enzymes. Don't mix ghee and honey in equal amounts. Avoid curd and buttermilk at night. Don't eat chicken and pork in combination or on the same day. Don't mix uncooked and cooked food.

To support your daily water intake needs, add foods like apple, grapes, plum, watermelon, strawberries, pineapple, grapefruit and cantaloupe that have on avg. 90% water for every 100gms. Other water-rich foods include tomato, lettuce, zucchini, spinach, radish, cucumber, eggplant, coconut water, green cabbage and buttermilk. Avoid protein rich foods and alcohol.