THE IMPORTANCE OF DIET
Food provides
raw materials from which your body is made and
maintained.Good, fresh, wholesome, nourshing, unprocessed and
generally natural foods produce healthy human beigns.The reverse
is equally true. Too many processed,treated,preserved and junk
foods create junk bodies.Almost all modern diseases, including
many cancers and certain types of heart problems have been linked
to bad eating habits.
THE '' DO''S AND ''DON''T''S OF DIET
THE ''DO''S
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While following the importance of diet:
Daily while sleeping in the night you should boil drinking water of
one liter at 80 degree centigrades and the same water stored in a small
copper pot after getting cooling in the night.
you should drink the one liter water at early
morning at 5-oo AM daily without mouth wash.After drinking one liter
of water go for a short distance walking.After lapse of 3hours of time
only you have to take break fast.
Daily go for early morning walking of 4KM or playing one hour table tennis/volley
ball or any game or practising Yoga,Pranayam( breathing exercises)
and meditation.
a) Eat plenty of fresh fruits and
vegetables.If you can eat organic
produce, even better.
Include the (washed) skins of fruits and vegetables,
since many of the nutrients are stored in them. take plenty of fresh,
leafy vegetables such as spinach and cabbages. Onions and garlic are also
very good. Try and eat a raw salad every day.
b) Cook your food lightly and especially your vegetables, to avoid losing
nutrients. Steaming or stir-frying is better than prolonged boiling
or deep-frying.
c) If you fry food, do so in unprocessed vegetable oils such as corn or
sunflower oil. Do not use already boiled oil(once used).
d) Include plenty of whole grains in your diet. these include whole meal
bread and brown rice, which will provide you with fibre as well as
essential nutrients.
e) Substitute fish or poultry for red meats when you can,if you are
non vegetarian.
f) To prevent osteoport thief) adequate calcium and vitamin D
intake are necessary to preserve healthy bones throughout your life.
Good sources of calcium are dairy products such as milk,cheese,yoghurt,
green leafy vegetables,nuts especially almonds and sea food like fish.
Vitamin D may be obtained from eggs, liver,or by spending 15 minutes in
the sun 2-3 times a week.
g) A whole food vegetarian diet can be particularly healthy.
h) Daily take three times one glass of more diluted butter milk which should contain
very small quantity of ginger and garlic pieces.
i) Daily eight hours of sleep in the night is essential.
THE ''DON''T''S
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a) Don''t eat too much salt or too much sugar.Consume salt only 2.5 grams per
day.
b) Don''t drink too much tea or coffee.
c) Don''t eat too much refined carbohydrate, as in white rice, or refined
flour, as in white bread. Choose the unrefined, whole food versions.
d) Don''t eat too much animal fat,which is contained mainly red meats,fatty
types of meats and certain dairy products.
e) Don''t eat too many processed foods.
f) Don''t eat foods that contain lots of additives.Read the packet to see
which additives,preservatives and other chemicals are present.
g) Don''t eat too much tamrine or high sour foods which develops acidity or
hyperacidity in the stomach.
h) Avoid permanently mangoe pickles or any other pickles, which is highly
dangerous for health due to very high deposition of salt in the pickles.
writer.........Dr. N.M. Chandrasekhar,
Vipra Homoeopathic Clinic,
6, Bugle Rock,
Basavanagudi,
Bangalore -4
Email: viprahomoeopath@hotmail.com