Diet according to Ayurveda
Healthy and fit body is most Precious thing in the world. To
give this Preciousness to every person is one of the aims of Ayurveda. To
achieve this Preciousness one thing is utmost important that is proper diet and
eating habits you all will agree that. For this we all consider calories,
proteins, fats, Vitamins and so many other things are necessary. Ayurveda has
added one more thing and that is Taste. Everyone loves Tasty food. It is
accepted from small baby to senior citizens Tasty
diet food pattern can be followed for long time and thus helps achieve Healthy
and Fit body.
Taste can be categorized in
six types.
- Sweet / Madhur -- here sweet means the basic tendency of that food which it imparts after digestion. (Sweet means not just Sweet dish) For Example Milk, Wheat, Rice, Corn, Green Gram, Lentils, Ghee, Honey, Black gram, Bengal gram, Onion, etc………
- Sour. / Amla -- e.g. Fresh Curd, Tamarind, Kokam, Lemon, Tomato, Green mango etc………
- Salty. / Lavan -- e.g. Rock salt, Black salt, Sea salt etc………
- Spicy. / Katu -- e.g. Chilly, Black pepper, Clove, Ginger, Cinnamon, etc………
- Bitter / Tikta -- e.g. Fenugreek, Turmeric, Bitter gourd, Sandal wood, saffron etc…………
- Astringent / Kashay -- e.g. Beetle nut, Nutmeg, Buttermilk, etc………
Diet should include all these six Tastes. Primarily food should be
sweet and other tastes should be less prominent. Approximately it should be
like this in proportion
|
Sweetness
|
80%
|
|
Sourness
|
10%
|
|
Salty
|
3%
|
|
Spicy
|
3%
|
|
Bitterness
|
2%
|
|
Astringent
taste
|
2%
|
Furher I will tell you what is the importance of all these tastes and how they affect your health
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