From beating cancer to now helping other

Watch Upasana Bijoor recount how she survived a cancer scare with the help of a SHARAN lifestyle. She dreamt of switching her career to one where she helped others to live healthfully too. She is now fulfilling that dream through Natureville in Bangalore.

Tofu Ricotta 

You don’t need dairy to make delicious cheese. Enjoy this plant-based ricotta without having to worry about the deadly side effects of dairy cheese.

Ingredients

• 250 g extra firm tofu
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• ⅛ cup nutritional yeast
• ¼ tsp unrefined salt
• ¼ tsp black pepper (kali mirch) powder
• ½ tbsp dry parsley flakes
• ½ tsp dry basil
• ½ tsp dry oregano
• ⅛ cup lemon juice
• ⅛ cup soymilk

Method

Combine all above ingredients in a blender and blend until fairly smooth. Refrigerate and serve or use in a recipe.

Makes 2 cups

Food For The Mind

FACEBOOK SUPPORT GROUP

If you love Facebook, then join us to be supported on your plant-based journey. We offer 2 possibilities.

1. SHARAN India is SHARAN’s main Facebook page which you can like and follow for getting useful daily updates and news from the plant based health world. You will also get news about the latest SHARAN events, see testimonials, and more.

2. SHARAN’s Vegan Support Group is an open support group to know more about vegan/plant-based lifestyle. Here you can ask questions and share inspiring stories, tips, recipes, etc.

All our doctors and presenters will be here to answer your questions and give you tips. If you have attended our events join this group to be a part of our family.

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How dairy can cause cancer                       
                  

It’s hard to believe that dairy can cause cancer because we’ve been brought up thinking that milk is a complete and ideal food. Here are some ways in which dairy milk contributes to cancer

1. Protein is the food for growth and cancer is a growth. There is a connection. Milk is high in proteins because it’s the food for a baby calf to grow to full size in 18 month

2. Milk contains powerful growth hormones that promote growth. They also naturally promote the growth of tumour

3. Casein, the major protein in milk, is a carcinogen that can actually promote cancer cells. In a replicable experiment, rats fed on a diet of 20% casein always developed tumours which would shrink when the casein was removed

4. Proteins break down into amino acids, creating an acidic environment that invites cancer cells present in the body to thrive. We need a more alkaline environment for health

5. The fat content of dairy (for eg. cheese is about 70% fat) causes blockages in the arteries, leading to decreased oxygenation to the cells – another invitation to cancer cell

6. Most cows are fed food laden with pesticides. This is then concentrated in the milk since the body tries to throw it out. (In fact, studies have shown even mother’s milk to be filled with pesticides)

7. Cows in India are often grazing in garbage dumps and tend to eat all kinds of waste that could include chemicals and carcinogen

8. Cows are often drinking water from streams polluted with detergents, soaps and other effluents simply because of the lack of clean drinking water. These toxic chemicals come back to us through the milk

9. Readymade feed contains rendered slaughterhouse by-products – again high protein and may contain plastics and other chemical

10. Breast cancer, ovarian cancer and prostate cancers are hormone-dependent cancers that are triggered by the sex hormones found in dairy milk