IslamoSophia - Food and Health

I decided that a good place to begin in researching the heart of our diet was from the heart of the Holy Quran - Surah Yasin.  I found the following verse. "And a sign for them is the dead earth, we bring forth from it the grain so that they eat of it." Surah 36:33 So just Like Allah created everything from the earth we too must go back to the most simplest elements in order to build our selves.  I went back to the beginning and started to re-educate myself on grains. These are things we all know but obviously have not properly understood otherwise we would be implementing them in our diets to a greater extent.  Knowledge does not lead to action unless understanding has been achieved. So For now let me list some grains to get us back to the basics in our diet building. Oh and I know beans is not grains but they are seeds that contains proteins and the feel good vitamin B6 just like grains. At this point I was already v...

P eace! Thank you for dropping by.  I'm hoping in this blog to answer some of the questions both for you all and for myself concerning the best possible way to eat and live that builds health from the most essentials to the most beauty enhancing ingredients.  My quest and challenge with food and health  has been going on for years now and although food is only the most basic and perhaps essential part of health, without the right food in our system no matter what other amazing, and enlightened practices we add to our life, no matter what good energies we send out or exercise programs we incorporate the food is the fuel.  Health is a journey, its ongoing and progressive from the root chakra to the crown its all one. Let me back track.  I've gone back and forwards between being an enthusiastic cook and a resentful one for years now, which when you have three hungry boys waiting for food, one of those being a teenager never really being full no matter...