Food - A Thought
Dr. Ranvir Pahwa, PhD
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"Importance of Food: Food is the most inevitable component of our health. It is the utmost thing to keep body healthy and functioning properly. Food provides life. The brain will quit working if one has no means of obtaining a proper meal. Pure food and pure thoughts would chase away the diseases.
When to Eat? To have a continuous support for health it is important to eat when you are hungry. It is extremely unhealthy attitude if we do not eat when hungry and eat when not hungry. It is healthy to eat after freeing from the calls of nature (urination and bowl evacuation), after exercise and bath/shower in the morning. It is better for our health if we eat 2-3 hours after exercise and 3 hours before exercise. Right after eating exercise and strenuous physical activity will adversely affect our digestive powers.
Eat when body-mind is happy and in peace. One should wait to eat until anger, anxiety, irritability, grief, with negative emotions and sadness is settled. If one is eating during above mentioned the state of mind the body will not be able to digest and assimilate food properly and effectively and ultimately it will affect body adversely. Ayurveda says it is converted into poison (Ama)......"
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Above Article has been taken from the book Healthy Cooking Vol. I authored and published by Dr. Ranvir Pahwa.