Food- and diet-that Ayurveda recommends

Diet plan according to Ayurveda

If you are reading my blogs regularly you my might be aware of what you might be eating wrong way as per our AYURVEDIC TEXT. So today lets discuss what you should follow to eating the right way, just suggest you one diet plan which Ayurveda suggest in all its books, which recommends you with promise that, if one follow it with religiously it, you can away your-self with all that life-style disorders. Even the damage that you done by eating the things which are not really meant for value for your body.

So let’s understand what is that diet plan which if you follow is work like medicine, Ayurveda is the only system of medicine which give extraordinary emphasis on not just food it-self but when and how it to be taken. Even the healthiest of food when eaten at wrong time can leads to accumulation of toxins in the body which then results in diseases. In this way Ayurveda is so deep and successfully treated diseases from its root.

How should we eat daily so that you can treat your diseases just with the food that we eat?

1. You should eat between sun rise and sun set:

You must eat your meals between sun-rise and sun-set timing of your area because our digestion is largely depending on that. According to Ayurveda our digestive fire rises as the sun rises and it’s on peak when sun is on its peak, and gradually dampens as sun sets. According to it any food which you eaten after sun has set are was not properly digested in our body. And this undigested food leads to accumulation of toxins inside the body which then results in short and long term diseases, over 95% diseases originate from the stomach. So this is specific eating timings for you. You can compare this type of eating pattern to INTERMITTENT FASTING, but this is much different than that because the eating timing is not decided by you but nature will decide it for you. Morden style of intermittent fasting will help you in weight loss but this type of eating pattern which decides by nature will nourish your mind, body and soul.

2. After sun set, the only thing recommended by Ayurveda is milk, because the specific enzymes to digest the milk are secreted at that time. Milk also has sedative property which helps to calm your body and induces sleep.
3. AYURVEDA also advice about your three meal BREAK-FAST, LUNCH AND DINNER. Even Ayurveda also recommend “break-fast like king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”.
4. Eating breakfast: like king mean your breakfast must be rich in all types of When you eat may be more important than what you eat. If you eat more calories as breakfast, it helps to lost more weight, because our bodies are programmed to burn the calories in the first half of the day and store energy supplies during night. You should be picky and choosy about the food you select for breakfast because the sun is not at its peak.
5. Lunch like a prince:

Lunch like prince mean, at lunch time sun is at its peak so you can eat a heaviest meal of the day, According to Ayurvedic scripture. If you want to indulge sweets, want to eat outside food once a while lunch time is ideal.

6. Dinner like a pauper:

Because the sun is about to set you cannot afford to digest a lot of food. So the dinner should be kept light. According to Ayurveda some foods which are strictly prohibited during night like bananas, radish, curd and cucumber. Because these are extremely cold nature foods so body can’t digest it when the sun is down.

What exactly should you eat?

The ideal characteristics of your food is, it should be

• Satvik
• Seasonal
• Local
• Fresh
• Tasty

1. What is satvik?

Food full of goodness is satvik. Ayurveda divide food into 3 categories

• Satvik (is synonyms of “wholesome foods”) which include fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, fresh cow dairy products, whole grains and legumes. They come directly from Mother Nature and are nourishing for mind, body and soul.
• Rajsic food is the same type of food are cooked in excess of salt, high sugar, too much spices, and also eaten if too cold or too hot to satisfy your tongue, they might make mind restless. so these kind of food terms as ‘Rajsic food’
• Tamsic – are the food of ignorance. These are frozen food, stale food, intoxicating foods, preservative contain foods, packaged foods and all non-veg foods. When these types of food are eaten they wreak havoc physically as well as mentally.

So the more satvik food you eat the better your health is.

2. Seasonal:

It means you must eat the food which is in season not in fashion. Eating fruit without season is not containing that good qualities which you gain during season include taste. For example mangoes if it is out of season, it is sour and eating them will be cause acidity. Every food which is in season will provide the best nourishment and goodness. So better to go to a local vegetable market and buy what is in season and eat it.

3. Local food:

Food you eat must be local. For example coconut and avocado, both are healthy sources of fat and other nutrient but coconut is local to Indians and avocado is foreign. Nature grows food in specific region to suit the people of that region. Food which grows within the 100km surroundings to your location is local for you and that food when eaten gets properly assimilated by your body.

4. Food should be fresh:

Freshen the food you eat the more it will beneficial for your health so eating refrigerator and preserved so called healthy food will more harmful for your body. Even BHAGWAT GITA mentioned clearly mentioned in shlok that “a food prepare should be eaten within three hours”.

5. Food should be tasty:

How nutritious the food may be, but if it is not delicious you can’t receive its benefits. It means healthy diet must be tasteful for tongue also.

How much food should you eat?

If you eat consciously, focus on eating, chewing and relishing every bite, your stomach itself signals you when its full, on the other side if you eats by watching TV or talking on mobile phones or with conversation you will miss out the satiety signals and as a result you over eat. So save yourself from counting every calorie that you intake, just listen to your body and eat accordingly.

How much water should you drink?

It depends upon person to person that how much water you should drink? Here listen to your body, if you are thirsty, drink slowly sip by sip. Our body gets good amount of water from other sources of food like fruits, vegetables, milk etc.

“Aahar suddhau satva shuddhi” (menace purity of food comes the purity of mind)

stay fit stays healthy.