Foods That Help Keep You Warm

Have you ever wondered why in the heat we prefer vegetable salads and green cabbage soup, and in winter we are more attracted to rich soup, fatty pork and Olivier salad? This is no coincidence. We just intuitively choose foods that warm the body.

They knew about warming foods in antiquity. So, in the Indian system of medicine Ayurveda, food was given great importance. Indian healers believed that for health it is necessary to eat properly, in particular, there are warming foods in the cold, and cooling ones in the heat.

Today, traditional medicine also recognizes this, it only explains the ability of food to warm the body differently than Ayurveda. Continue reading →