Yogic Diet and FastingAll living beings on this earth need food. Most of them eat a particular type of food, just as a horse eats grass and grain, and a lion eats raw meat. These species intuitively know what they should eat. But paradoxically, man, although the most intelligent of them, usually does not eat what he needs. While other species eat only a few varieties of food, man eats innumerable types of cooked and uncooked foods. Another strange fact commonly observed is that man, In spite of all his knowledge, does not eat his food well. That is why man is the sickest of all species today. He has established thousands of hospitals to cure sickness and disease. He has set up large factories to manufacture drugs and medicines. The medical science has made enormous progress in the 20th century. But man is still the sickest of all species on this earth. Why? Let’s try to find, if there is any relationship between our food habits and our sickness. There is no single item of food which can provide us with all the necessary nutrients (although fresh milk) contains most of these. It is therefore essential to eat a combination of foods to get all the necessary substances required by our body. The quantity of these ingredients required by each body is not the same. So we must select our food items according to the needs of our body. Generally, a person doing a lot of physical work will need more of fats and carbohydrates to recoup the energy lost by him in excessive physical work. A child needs more proteins than an old man, because the child’s body needs more protein for growth. A sick person may be deficient in some substances, but he may not need carbohydrates and fats. |
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