The Health Awareness Center-Mumbai

18/09/2025

THACs NUTRITION RE-EDUCATION CLASSES
15th Nov 2025 to 24th Jan 2026

Wellness Greetings!

Here is a list of some of the latest trends for Health.
- Blue Zone Diets
- AI Powered Precision Nutrition
- Bovine Colustrum Supplements
- Raw Milk
- Red Light Therapy
- Home Microbiome Tests
- Therapeutic Psychedelics for Mental Health
- Digital Detoxing
- Nutrient Dense Foods
- Tik Tok Guidance (it actually has an unbelievable amount of followers!)

Irrespective of what perspective we see it from, or what we do about it, (as the list above reveals), Health remains a priority for all.

Whatever happened to the good old steady common sense of "Eat Well. Sleep Well. Move. Nurture Relationships", amongst all these new trends and bombardment of choices?

Changes are natural, yet how do we keep ourselves rooted to what is essential?
How do we sustain actions to take care of ourselves - physically, mentally and emotionally? What can we do to make lifestyle choices, that can build our own capacity to stay well?

THAC’S 9 Week Nutrition Re-education Classes, is a step-by-step process, to help us navigate through changes, challenges, confusion and conflicts.
To be able to take care of ourselves and family.
It is an in-person/face to face programme.

Nurturing ourselves towards our highest potential- is a possibility that we are each genetically designed to achieve.
To bring back and hold safely - health in our own capable hands. As a lived experience - daily.

* For more Details, Course Content and Registrations log on to our learning portal on learning.thac.in/s/pages/thac-nutritionreeducationclasses

* THAC’s Nutrition Re-education 15th Nov 2025 to 24th Jan 2026 (Break on 27th Dec 2025 & 3rd Jan 2026) @ THAC Mumbai.

* Every Saturday for 9 weeks, from 11am to 2pm .

We take a fixed number of participants per batch, to ensure ongoing support and maximise all around interaction. So enrol quickly to avoid disappointment!

You can drop a mail to thacwellness@gmail.com for any queries or support.

In Health
THAC TEAM

11/09/2025

THAC ANNIVERSARY OFFERINGS - PART 2
Around Equinox, Sept 2025

Wellness Greetings!

"Across time, we’ve always met at the table,” says Lao.

Don't really know who Lao was- or when he said this, yet do know that this still holds so solidly true.
For at the table- each of our dining tables, stories, recipes, legacies, memories and flavours, all gather together to culminate in a "taste" that goes beyond the ingredients in the dishes.

This "taste" at the THAC KITCHEN, has been carefully tended to from its very first no-oil-tadka experiments, in the hands of Dr Vijaya Venkat- THACs founder.
Putting theory to practise was the fire that furiously fuelled her very many experiments. Even the flop disasters were khichdi-fied or cutlet-ed into tasty morsels. Bite by bite, camouflaged dishes by showy-presentations, she won her family and friends over with her kitchen innovations.

"Making something out of nothing", was a gift she had...like an Akshaya Patra which magically kept feeding all - and there were many many strangers friends and foes who were won over by the kind of food she made. Different, unique with an undeniably wholesome taste.

Which is what we can call as the THAC CUISINE.
Today- decades down from that little kitchen in Dr Venkat's home- the very same recipes, the kind of ingredients used, the methodology, why even some of the pots, pans and vessels in the current far more -modernised kitchen, all coalesce to create the Menus you eat, 5 days of the week at least.
For some of you, this kind of "cooking" has become an everyday thing - thanks to the principles and concepts she laid down, almost 40 years ago.

So when a box is opened, be it for Lunch or a Snack, it's like each of you are sitting together and meeting across a table, (albeit an invisible one!), with Dr Venkat sitting at its head- sharing and tasting a meal, together.

To us, that's the tastiest kind of meeting/eating -ever!
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BOOKINGS & MENUS FOR THE LAST 2 WEEKS OF SEPTEMBER ARE NOW OPEN
On thackitchen.com

* LUNCH PACKAGE : 15- 19 SEPTEMBER
* SALAD & SNACK BAR - 22 -26 SEPTEMBER

For any queries please drop a mail to thackitchen@gmail.com.

In Health
THAC KITCHEN TEAM

P.S: All THAC's meals are prepared with care using no oil, no hydrogenated fats in any form.
No dairy nor milk products. No sugar. No wheat. Nothing processed. No iodised salt. To keep nourishment intact.
Thoughtfully sourced.
Lovingly prepared.
Always nourishing.

02/09/2025

THACs BRING NOURISHMENT HOME WORKSHOP - NEW BATCH
~ For Beginners
25 SEPTEMBER 2025

Wellness Greetings!

“A family that eats together stays together”. Which is why home-cooked meals matter. For such meals stir up and transfer love, bonding, and belonging.

Sitting together around the family table, hearts draw closer, children imbibe wisdom from elders and relationships soften and grow warmer. All of which helps our nervous system relax, feel safe & enables digestion. Hormones of safety & calm are secreted, facilitating health.

Eating alone, whilst scrolling on our device as sole company, creates an isolating experience, putting the feeling of security and safety at odds. Which in turn keeps our nervous system on edge, ultimately affecting digestion.

Cooking isn’t just another household chore — it is the invisible thread that binds families together, bringing the "invisible crown" of health into daily living.

THAC's BRING NOURISHMENT HOME WORKSHOP, is that gentle nudge for you to move into the kitchen- if you are a novice.
Or a pull into learning new dishes if you are at ease in the kitchen. It is an opportunity to upgrade your skills.

DETAILS:

Demonstration oriented workshop to motivate you to make nourishing meals.
Clarity on the why and how to make dishes. What ingredients to use, what combinations work, while keeping a balance of taste and nourishment.
Learn to add variety, to keep your meals an interesting delight. Will also equip you to make all your favourite recipes the nourishing way.
You will have peer and mentor support for one month through a WhatsApp group.

This will continue thereafter by you joining a bigger group of past participant.

Session Details:
* DATE : Thursday, 25th September 2025
* TIMINGS : 2pm to 5pm
* VENUE : THAC WORLI
* PRICE: Rs 5,000/- + 18% GST

Click below to register for the BNH Workshop:
https://form.jotform.com/thacwellness/Bring-Nourishment-Home

For any queries write to thacwellness@gmail.com

In Health
THAC Team

01/09/2025

29/08/2025

TRAINING COOKS WORKSHOP
4th, 11th & 18th Sept 2025

Wellness Greetings!

A Salad, a Soup, a healthy Snack, and that almost impossible *VJ..Veggie Juice, all to make, before work, kids to school, maid coming in etc etc...

What if your cook/helper, can dish them all out- and all you have to do is to plan your menu and give instructions?

That's exactly what this TRAINING COOKS,
3 SESSION WORKSHOP aims to do!
To equip your KITCHEN STAFF to make a big variety of dishes to fulfill all your cravings.

THACs TRAINING COOKS WORKSHOP provides a platform, to do just this.

To train and equip your kitchen staff (or those who make your daily food), with 3 inter-connected sessions.
The Workshop will teach them to make food correctly, keeping the nutrient quotient high.
Kitchen Management Principles are its foundation.
Nutrition Concepts which you are unable to get them to understand, are explained here with their practical applications.
Correct Methodology is what gets reiterated and demonstrated here, to enable your cook to prepare your meals.
A whole wide range of Salads/Soups/Starters-Snacks/Veggie Juices/Mains, are what they will learn.


All 3 sessions are interconnected and essential to attend, as per the design of the program.
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Session Details :
Dates: 4th, 11th and 18th September 2025 (Thursdays)
Venue: THAC, Nav-Neelam, 212-B, Dr Thadani Marg, Worli
Time: 2.00pm to 5.00pm
Price: Rs. 7500/- plus 18% GST

Kindly use the registration link to enroll your staff.
Please check with them if they are available on all the three days of the workshop before registering.
https://form.jotform.com/thacwellness/training-cooks-registration

PLEASE NOTE:
This course is open to those who have done a previous programme with THAC.
For first timers, we are happy to have a conversation with you, so do call/write in.

To enable that, please write to thacwellness@gmail.com

In Health
THAC Team

28/08/2025

THAC ANNIVERSARY OFFERINGS

Wellness Greetings!

Sept 1st 1989 to 2025 - decades have rolled on, growing firmly on the very first foundation stone laid then.
That foundation stone was the THAC Kitchen. Started then to make available to all - fresh, natural, whole, untampered and tasty food, through a daily lunch service.

The forms of the service have changed through the years, the hands that make it though- have pretty much stayed the same. As has the methodology, truthful to the blueprint that it emerged from. Which is to provide Nourishment in its truest most faithful form.

Its founder- creator Dr Vijaya Venkat started first with little experiments on herself and her family in her own kitchen. From there on to sharing with family and friends, and eventually in the shape of the THAC KITCHEN itself..

The Menus for these 2 weeks in particular are a tribute and in remembrance of some of Dr Vijaya Venkat's unique food hacks, favourite foods and well tested recipes.

Enjoy them all as we the hands and hearts that run the THAC Kitchen, offer them in gratitude for all the support that we have received.

BOOKINGS & MENUS FOR THE FIRST 2 WEEKS OF SEPTEMBER ARE NOW OPEN ON thackitchen.com.

4 DAY LUNCH PACKAGE: 1st to 4th September (No service on 5th Sept)
SALAD & SNACK BAR : 8th to 12th September

For any queries please drop a mail to thackitchen@gmail.com.

In Health
THAC KITCHEN TEAM

P.S: All THAC's meals are prepared with care using no oil, no hydrogenated fats in any form.
No dairy nor milk products. No sugar. No wheat. Nothing processed. No iodised salt. To keep nourishment intact.
Thoughtfully sourced.
Lovingly prepared.
Always nourishing.

19/08/2025

GANESH CHATURTHI SPECIAL
AUGUST 2025

Ganapati Bappa Moraya!

Obstacles removed. Unforseen hurdles too.
Even in the thundering rains and flooding, he is carried to mandaps and private homes with pomp and grandeur.
He is so very adored, worshipped, and definitely prayed to, at the start of any venture, or occasion.
He symbolises what we all aspire for - good luck and prosperity.
He shows us that life can be tamed too- despite life's at times pesky nature, through the symbol of his vehicle (vahan) - the rat.

Do we need to ask or pray for more?

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to all!
*
The THAC Kitchen is making available some of Ganesha's favourite things...sweets.
MODAKS in particular, made with a recipe and methodology, that has stayed unchanged for 4 generations, that THACs Kitchen women have mastered...and we proudly present, only on this occasion.
Along with a few of THACs all time favourites, which we offer as Prasad to share with your kin.

* Make a booking and place your order on the link provided below.
Delivery available in Mumbai only.
https://form.jotform.com/thacwellness/ganesh-chaturthi

* Deliveries will be made from 26th August to 29th August 2025.
Only on 27th August deliveries will be made in the morning half.
On 26th, 28th & 29th August, deliveries will reach by 5pm max.
So make your bookings accordingly, depending on which day (or time) you wish to have your order delivered.

* Last date to place your order and finalise your bookings will be on 23rd August 2025.

For any queries please drop a mail to thackitchen@gmail.com
May the blessings of Ganesha be abundantly showered on all of us.

In Health
THAC KITCHEN TEAM

14/08/2025

SIDES & MAINS
THAC AUGUST END KITCHEN ANNOUNCEMENT

Wellness Greetings!

When we sit to eat with plate in hand, generally the first serving occupying more than 50-60% of the plate - is the Main Cereal/Grain dish.

Be It Rice..as Pulao or Risotto or Biryani or Masala Baat where the grain can hold and keep its form and shape. Based on where we have grown up or local state we are coming from, the varieties of Rice are innumerable. Each variety has its own flavour size and stickiness. Along with the all important taste profile of course.

Rice however can be ground as flour or batter to turn into all kinds of shapes and forms. As Sevai, as Pancakes or Dosas, as Noodles as Bhakris, as Momos or that sweet Modak outer covering.

The same is true of all other Grains and Millets.

The Main Dish, based on the Grain used then takes on an identity, a name and personality that dominates the setting on the table and your plate.

The Main Dish also somehow "demands" its own accompaniment, more like a companion on the gustatory journey you are about to embark on.
So Bhakri & Amti pair up like Dosas & Sambhar go together, just as a Pulao begs for a Curry or a Gravy like Dahi Kadhi to be mixed and eaten together.

What about the Sides then...for they are even annoited as such - A Side!
What about the equally important and necessary Vegetables, the Tubrers & Roots the Koshimbir and Salads?
The Snacks that make up the whole meal?
Is enough attention given to them?
Is there place on your thaali for them?
Are the proportion in which your Sides & Main eaten, equal or favouring the Main?

In the Menus that are now available and open for the next 2 weeks in August- examine the Sides, the Salads & Snacks.
Let the digestive juices flow even simply by reading about them.
Examine your own choices thereafter, to see whether you are paying as much attention to them.

Bookings & Menus are now open at thackitchen.com
For the 5 Day Lunch Package: From 18th to 22nd August
&
The 4 Day Salad & Snack Bar: From 25th August to 29th August.
27th August is a holiday due to Ganesh Chaturthi.

Festive Greetings to All!
Here's to making our Sides as important as the Main Course!
*
For any enquiries drop a mail to thackitchen@gmail.com

In Health
THAC KITCHEN TEAM

P.S: All THAC's meals are prepared with care using no oil, no hydrogenated fats in any form.
No dairy nor milk products. No sugar. No wheat. Nothing processed. No iodised salt. To keep nourishment intact.
Thoughtfully sourced.
Lovingly prepared.
Always nourishing.

05/08/2025

TRAINING COOKS WORKSHOP
4th, 11th & 18th Sept 2025

Wellness Greetings!

A Salad, a Soup, a healthy Snack, and that almost impossible *VJ..Veggie Juice, all to make, before work, kids to school, maid coming in etc etc...

What if your cook/helper, can dish them all out- and all you have to do is to plan your menu and give instructions?

That's exactly what this TRAINING COOKS,
3 SESSION WORKSHOP aims to do!
To equip your KITCHEN STAFF to make a big variety of dishes to fulfill all your cravings.

THACs TRAINING COOKS WORKSHOP provides a platform, to do just this.

* To train and equip your kitchen staff (or those who make your daily food), with 3 inter-connected sessions.
* The Workshop will teach them to make food correctly, keeping the nutrient quotient high.
* Kitchen Management Principles are its foundation.
* Nutrition Concepts which you are unable to get them to understand, are explained here with their practical applications.
* Correct Methodology is what gets reiterated and demonstrated here, to enable your cook to prepare your meals.
* A whole wide range of Salads/Soups/Starters-Snacks/Veggie Juices/Mains, are what they will learn.

All 3 sessions are interconnected and essential to attend, as per the design of the program.
*
Session Details :

* Dates: 4th, 11th and 18th September 2025 (Thursdays)
* Venue: THAC, Nav-Neelam, 212-B, Dr Thadani Marg, Worli
* Time: 2.00pm to 5.00pm
* Price: Rs. 7500/- plus 18% GST

Kindly use the registration link to enroll your staff.
Please check with them if they are available on all the three days of the workshop before registering.
https://form.jotform.com/thacwellness/training-cooks-registration

PLEASE NOTE:
* This course is open to those who have done a previous programme with THAC.
* For first timers, we are happy to have a conversation with you, so do call/write in.

To enable that, please write to thacwellness@gmail.com

In Health
THAC Team

31/07/2025

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MATTER!
AUGUST THAC KITCHEN ANNOUNCEMENT

When it comes to food and eating, often it's the first sight, the immediate flirtatious aromas that compels us to go on and taste it. And yet that tiny herb or the dash of spice, the topping of garnish, or that perfectly browned baked finish, is what has drawn us to the dish in the first place.
It's the little-est of things that matter, when it comes to Food. And paying attention to these tiny flourishes and all those many tinier details that goes into its making, come together to create all the difference.

So what's your opinion on food, flavour and cooking in general?
Whether you are a novice in the kitchen or a well seasoned and marinated chef in your own kitchen, here are some timeless tiny tips to dip into.

* When it comes to Vegetables- Do not overcook Veggies. Keeping them tender means retaining their colour profile, so that the Spinach stays green and not brown! As green as the monsoon cover out now.

Veggies need to stay crisp, not mushy. Over cooked veggies lose their all important enzymes & nutrients..so keep them crisp and tender, by steaming them...not pressure cooking nor boiling them.

* Add Salt at the end, so that the veggies do not lose their natural moisture. Colour also gets retained when salt is not added earlier.
* Tear your Herbs by hand, instead of cutting them with a knife. This helps to preserve their original essential oils and flavours..their aromatic qualities get preserved...this is what draws a person to the dish.
* Your Knife is your biggest ally, tool and friend in the kitchen. As is your cutting board. Invest in the best for both. It makes all the difference in the ease of preparation and the styles of cutting you can play with. The same veggie cut differently can conjure truly different textures and flavours.
* Last yet never ever the least- and in fact is the key starting point to the collection of little things- is where you shop and pick up your supplies. How fresh ripe and seasonal it is. Whether it was grown organically? Where it was sourced from? How far has it travelled? All these factors come together to give each ingredient its unique taste and profile.

At the THAC KITCHEN, it is these details, these tiny little things that have become the take off point for what we do in the kitchen.

For our women staff who have been working with us for decades, they each have their own "tool', their preferred peeler, knife, chopping board or strainer that they call their own. Like an old fashioned ink pen, which has a signature slant or style via its nib, each woman's tool is their signing off with a dish, and what they bring to it.

Taste this difference, in the upcoming Menus for the first 2 weeks of August.

Bookings are now open for -
* 5 DAY LUNCH PACKAGE 4th August - 8th August 2025
* 4 DAY SALAD & SNACK BAR 11th August - 14 August 2025
(15th August is a holiday being Independence Day)
at https://thackitchen.com
*
For any queries kindly drop a mail to thackitchen@gmail.com.

In Health
THAC KITCHEN TEAM

P.S: All THAC's meals are prepared with care using no oil, no hydrogenated fats in any form.
No dairy nor milk products. No sugar. No wheat. Nothing processed. No iodised salt. To keep nourishment intact.
Thoughtfully sourced.
Lovingly prepared.
Always nourishing.

24/07/2025

FAT TRAP : BEYOND YO-YOING
8 WEEK RE-BOOT CAMP
Starting from 18th August Till 11th October 2025

We’ve been taught to fight fat - burn it, lose it, restrict it, fear it.
But what if fat isn’t the enemy?
What if fat is actually your body’s way of protecting you?

That weight around your belly, thighs, or arms?
It’s not just stored calories.
It’s accumulated toxicity, unprocessed stress, emotional load, and deep fatigue - all bundled up in a protective cushion.

What if we look at Fat as our Body’s Alarm System
It tells you:
“I need rest.”
"I need nourishment."
“I’m not feeling safe.”
“I’m holding too much.”
"I need to move."

Fat is a signal, not the problem.
And unless we decode the signal, we’ll stay stuck in the same loop - diets, over-exercising, emotional spirals, and weight cycling.

And then begins the entrapment.
Is it by calories or by grams?
Is it Intermittent Fasting or Paleo or Keto or Atkins?
Is it to “eat what you want” but “exercise till you drop”?
Is it the failure of Diets & Food Plans?
The weight cycling yo-yo, of weight on-weight off & eventual giving up?
Lack of exercise?
More belly-fat?
The pressure of adhering to certain body-types?
And the resulting stress which seems to have no closure?
Loneliness, guilt, lack of purpose, depression, fatigue, shame…
Is it all because of multiple online choices that aim to fill the void?
Or mis-reading the cues of your body?

The 8 Week Re-boot Camp on THE FAT TRAP - Beyond Yo-Yoing, is designed to answer these very questions to help you understand the role of Fat in your body.
To de-bunk myths surrounding weight loss programmes, diets and exercising.
Along side, the science behind Fat is explored, its importance and role within the body.

It takes into account often ignored aspects like-
* Your Sleep Patterns (which play a key role in fat breakdown & redistribution),
* Your Stress Cycles (which always impact weight management & eating cues),
* Your Mindset, Emotions & Habits (which all aid or hamper your capacity to create sustainable goals)

So that you are better equipped to not fall for the latest Fad Diet,
And instead of just losing the kilos, you will work on your internal Energy Storage systems,
To ultimately gain Health.

Welcome to this programme on THAC LEARNING .

To know more about the format of the Re-Boot Camp click here -
https://learning.thac.in/s/pages/thac-online-rebootcamp

For the FAT TRAP Course Details & Enrollment, go to -
https://learning.thac.in/courses/THE-FAT-TRAP
4 Weeks of Learning
4 Weeks of Practise

In Health
THAC TEAM

22/07/2025

RECORDING OF THE OPEN HOUSE ON
MEN-O-PAUSE : A PHASE OR AN AILMENT?

Wellness Greetings!

Perimenopausal, Menopause, Andropause,
Postmenopause, Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone...
What really do these stages mean? What do the names do to us from within?

The many many symptoms associated with this stage- from the night sweats and hot flashes to vaginal dryness, weight gain and wrinkling skin...
Knowing that there can be so many symptoms sometimes can be more scary than the actual symptoms we may or may not experience.
So what are these symptoms actually conveying?

The 'anticipated long term risks' of failing/falling hormones, be it osteoporosis, UTIs or Heart Health, makes us seek treatments from Hormone Replacement Therapies to Pelvic floor exercises, to manage these risks.

Between the symptoms we face and the treatments we look for, what are we missing?
How can we look at this phase of life- Men-o- pause, any differently?

The Online Recording of this topic, will definitely shed some some light on this.

Subscribe to the Online Recording of THACs OPEN HOUSE ON MEN-O-PAUSE : A PHASE OR AN AILMENT?
https://learning.thac.in/courses/OPEN-HOUSE-MEN-O-PAUSE--A-PHASE-OR-AN-AILMENT

With Lifetime Validity, you can keep revisiting the recording to understanding this life transition.

In Health
THAC TEAM