Monday, July 26, 2010

Food is your medicine


Food as Medicine
Its a well known fact that good food is the best medicine to fight diseases
For healthy life it is is important to have a wholesome diet. A wholesome diet consists of grain products, vegetables, fruits, milk products, meats and many more things.
It act as supplement, energy boosters, that helps to keep you lively and energetic for the whole day. Right food at right time, detoxifies the body without affecting the whole metabolism.

Eat well and feel good:
A person should take meal only when he feels hungry. Lunch should be taken early between 12 and 1P.M. this coincides with the peak Pitta period, Pitta is responsible for the digestion. Ayurveda recommends that the lunch should be the largest meal of the day. The supper should be lesser and lighter than lunch

Quantity of food : Generally half of the capacity of stomach should be filled with solids, ¼ th with liquids and rest kept empty for the free movements of body humors.