10 Principles of Ayurveda Nutrition. Part 2.

4. Follow principles of compatibility products.
According to Ayurveda, you need to eat fruits, starch, proteins and fats separately at different times of the day.

Here are some examples:
• drink milk or yogurt separately from acidic fruits, or citrus;

• eat fruits separately from potato and other starchy foods (fructose is digested quickly);

• eat melon separately from grain and milk (generally it is desirable not to combine melons with any food).

5. Rest from food.
According to Ayurveda, once a week you should "rest" from the heavy food. As people, who practice fasting for one day, say, it is not easy to get used to the food limitations, but eventually you feel a sense of lightness and "hover" and you begin to understand all the charm of this principle.

6. Include all 6 tastes in the diet.
A balanced diet should include all six tastes (sweet, salt, sour, spicy, astringent and bitter) at each meal. However, there is no need to overload one dish. Some herbs or hot spices will add the missing shade of taste. Also it is not recommended to follow the same set of flavors every day. Let your body to enjoy the whole palette of tastes, and your body will be grateful to you.

7. Do not ignore the spices.
There are a lot of spices in Indian cuisine. And they are very useful not only for the tasty qualities of any dish, but also for the body. It’s because natural seasonings have a lot of valuable substances. However, you should not overdo. You can spoil the dish easily.

10 Principles of Ayurveda Nutrition. Part 1.

How to eat with the benefits for body and soul? You can find the answer to this question in the ancient Indian "science of life" - Ayurveda.

1. Cook your food by yourself.
One of the Ayurveda diet recommendations says: eat fresh, just cooked food. Do not expose it repeated thermal treatment. The process of cooking is very important too. You should begin the cutting vegetables and cooking soup only in a good mood, thinking about nice things. This makes the food tastier and better not only for you but for the people you love (and feed). So if you are offended and angry, you’d better to postpone cooking.

2. Eat "alive" food.
To be viable, our body needs in live food. This is fresh, natural fruits, vegetables and whole grain. All of them contain enzymes necessary for proper digestion and assimilation of food. Also they have nutrients for normal cell development. Actually in saying "You are what you eat" there is the profound truth.

Cook from fresh ingredients. Frozen and canned ones are "lifeless". And eat more raw food (vegetables, fruits, grain), because with any treatment products lose a significant part of the life-giving energy and flavor.

3. Eat when you are hungry.
In Ayurveda the traditional breakfast, lunch and dinner are not the authority. It recommends eating only when you feel hungry. The body knows better when to eat. However, this rule does not apply to cases concerned with violation of appetite. "Eat, when the body prompts to you" does not mean "over-eat." The only time limitation concerns breakfast. The first time for meal is recommended before 8 a.m.

Anti-health or Modern Nutrition Facts

A modern person who doesn’t have to fend for himself, who has a big choice of any food, however this has a long row to hoe. This new baffling problem is not to lose healthy appetite and food instincts. Increasingly numbers of people prefer food with flavoring agents to natural one. A recent study drawn among more than 1500 had the following edition:

• 15% of respondents did not eat any vegetables;
• 40% ate only potatoes or tomato sauce (ketchup is meant);
• 20% of the students did not take any fruit.

Today the frightening truth is that the human acts contrary to his nature. Our taste sensors are misinformed with imitation tastes; we accustom the flavoring agents to the detriment of our health; we are enthralled by poor food and taste-dependence. Don’t you? Can you abandon your favorite wurst, chewing-gum, yoghurt (containing flavorings)? Have you ever read their product composition, as well as product composition of other food substances you usually eat?

Today it goes like this: there is the necessity to aid in educating the public about daily dietary needs. We should turn attention to plant products: grains, fruits and vegetables and natural meat products they contain all necessary nutrition facts. There has to be a radical change in nutrition facts we take, before the decline process doesn’t become irreversible.

Have ever you heard the phrase "you are what you eat"? Stop and think about the importance of this quip. Our food plays a large role in how we develop and grow, we all are involved it, whether we like it or not, and children especially. Quality and crap food also influences our health, energy levels and attitudes. Remember with "quality and crap", "natural and imitation" is meant. Learning about good nutrition facts should become an essential element of every person's life, especially during habit-forming childhood years.

Nutrition facts have always played an important role in the life of a child. A child who does not attain proper nutrition facts will not achieve his normal physical and mental potential. Most of us establish their personal food to 10-15 years of life; usually we adopt our parents’ habits and preference. Proper education can help to develop good habits.

Fruits and vegetables provide many essential vitamins and minerals. But even that is not the question. Our body does not have the opportunity to swallow a piece of cardboard aromatized as a chicken or a mushroom and take out nourishment as from the real chicken or mushroom. The failure of fruits and vegetables increases risks of cancer and coronary heart disease. It is recommended to eat five fruits and vegetables every day. Let's begin!

Dehydration as a Reason of Diseases

In point of fact the problem is more actual than it seems at the first glance. The results of the investigation admit to assert: a larger number of people (children and adults) suffer from chronic dehydration.

The chronic dehydration means scarcity of water over extended intervals. Inasmuch as water deficiency hasn’t a general symptom but is evident as different symptoms and indispositions, it is difficult to confirm the problem. But at the same time a number of research workers note a substantial improvement of their patients’ health status, after water exchange normalization.

So water is a natural treatment for a lot of diseases; dehydration causes more problems than meets the eye.

Now it becomes apparent that, because of discontented thirst our body becomes anhydrous since early childhood and this state becomes chronic. With the increase of years, water content in body cages shrink, that causes their depression of performance.

In consequence of chronic dehydration a lot of symptoms come into being. These symptoms are usually treated as a disease, which does not exist. Among other things chronic dehydration causes early skin aging. A water demand is 40 mg\1 kg of body weight per day.

How to Get Purified Water

Water can be purified with some methods; we all can do it by ourselves. It is widely known that water has three states: water itself, ice and steam. This transition of state is a natural way of water treatment. By freezing as well as by water evaporation the water treatment comes. It is the way to clear water from harmful chemical agents and from negative information it has got.

What about water evaporation it is too labour-intensive process to use it at home but you can try refrigeration. Usually halfway freezing water forms a muddy scruff that should be poured to remove harmful chemical agents. Ice water has considered to be very useful for ages, especially snow melt water. Use ice or ice water for tea, juice, soup. Ice-cubes are taken to be an effective skin normalizer, tonic and anti-ageing.

Nevertheless you are not proposed to freeze all water you need, it is very difficult and not necessarily. You may mount a streamline filter and combine it with a verbal component. Do you realize that good words and music refine water? Their good vibrations influence water and refine it. Use this method, why not? The optimal words are: "thanks", "love", and "gratitude". You may pronounce these words or write them down and fix to water jug.

Holy Water usually has an excellent structure and property to refine the water. Its structure is so good because this water was specially influenced with prayers that are also good vibrations. Pour some Holy Water into your water jug.