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New on The Resilience Blog:
Shed Those Extra Winter Pounds with Nature’s Detoxifying Foods
The days are getting longer. Memories of a brutal winter – for Midwesterners and Easterners, at least – have started to melt away. Less easy to shed, though, are those extra winter pounds.
 Ayurveda teaches that winter weight gain is part of a natural cycle. In the winter, we typically eat heavier, denser foods. Because of that, we accumulate what’s known as ama – impurities that build up from incomplete digestion. Although there’s no actual correlate for ama in modern chemistry, you can think of it as a buildup of “toxins.”
The key to releasing ama – and the extra weight – is to shift our eating with the season, taking advantage of cleansing springtime foods…
How much difference does exercise make? A lot, according to a recent study of identical twins whose physical activity levels diverged in adulthood. Those who became more sedentary “had lower endurance capacities, higher body fat percentages, and signs of insulin resistance” compared to their more active counterpart. Learn more.
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Khichadi (pronounced kich-ah-ree) is a traditional Indian porridge that is used for cleansing, healing and comforting. The recipe below comes from Dr. John Douillard 
