Twenty Five Ways To Eat & Drink Healthy
by: P.N. Verma
- Never drink iced water, especially not with meals.
This interferes with flow of digestive juices and
impairs digestion.
- Drink a glass of fresh pure water, at room
temperature, the first thing in the morning and
last thing at night. It should be taken hot only
when one is troubled by constipation. In that
case, a little lemon may be added.
- Drink five to eight glasses of water every day.
(Approx one glass for every 14 pounds of body
weight). Drink mineral water to be on safe
side.
- Don't drink water with your meals, but take it
half hour before or two to three hours after
meals so as not to disturb the process of
digestion by diluting the digestive juices.
- Sip the water slowly, never gulp it down
at once.
- In order to restore life elements of the water
lost in boling/processing, pass it through
the air, pouring it from one glass to another.
You will soon notice that this gives a slightly
invigorating and stimulating effect, which is
absent in lifeless and devitalized water.
- It is better to eat fruit than to drink fruit
Juices.
- Don't keep juices standing, as they will lose
their precious enzymes. Orange Juice for
instance loses one third of them after half
hour and all of them after two hours.
- Alcohol, tea, coffee and chocolate are not
recommended because tannic acid, theine,
caffeine and theobromine are stimulants.
- Milk is a food, not a drink. It should be taken
in small sips, otherwise it is likely to produce
indigestion.
- It is not the amount of food you eat that
nourishes your body, but only the amount
the body itself can assimilate.
- Choose carefully the foods that suit your system,
choose them just as carefully as you choose a dress,
a hat or a tie. YOU HAVE TO TRY VARIOUS FOOD
COMBINATIONS UNTIL YOU FIND OUT WHICH SUIT BEST.
- Avoid all devitalised foods like canned food,
polished rice, white flour and refined sugar.
Use unpolished rice, whole wheat flour and
brown sugar/honey.
- Chew your food carefully, especially if it is
the starchy kind, so that it may be properly
mixed with saliva, otherwise starch will lie
waiting for digestion for several hours.
- Toasted bread is better than fresh. Do not eat
it with liquid. Drink before eating the bread,
as starch should be converted into glucose by
saliva.
- Eat only one starch to a meal. For instance, if
you take rice then omit bread, potatoes, macaroni
starchy pudding and so on.
- If you suffer from gas, it is advisable to plan
your meals so that you do not eat starch and
protein together; and specially not with cooked
sulphur foods like peas, cabbage, cauliflower,
eggs, turnips and so on becuase gas is produced
by sulphur working on the starch.
- Don't throw away the water in which vegetables
have been boiled but use it for soup, gravies
or for drinking. Potato water is very good as it
alkalizes the body.
- Fried foods as well as rich dishes should be
avoided altogether, because these digest more
slowly than fat itself. Fat is the last to
leave the sotmach, carbohydrates come first
and then proteins.
- All saturated fats, like lard, margarine, eggs,
butter and dairy products tend to increase the
blood cholesterol level and can be classified
as unessential fats.
- Any diet which is high in staurated fat is
dangerous. So eat balanced meals, a high fat
and low protein diet inhibits the function
of enzymes.
- Remember, it is not only the calories and amount
of fat that determines the nutrition and
health, but the quality of fat. Bacon, for
instance has caloric fat value only. It contains
nothing else, neither vitamins, nor minerals.
- Six glasses of fresh raw cabbage juice a day
keep peptic ulcers away.
- The richest source of protein is soya bean. two
pounds of soya been flour contain as much protien as
four pounds of cheese, five pounds of boneless meat
or six dozen eggs or fifteen quarts of milk. Soya
bean is the only non-acid forming protein.
- The most essential rule about food, however, has
nothing to do with quantity, quality or preparation,
but with your mental attitude at the time you are
eating it.
