Dietary Guidelines

The importance of right diet

Ayurveda says ‘Let food be your medicine’

This means that proper diet is a major tool in maintaining and promoting health. If diet is right most illness will be prevented and if diet is wrong even powerful medicines will be of little use.

 

Ayurveda provides a simple general framework for guiding diet - the what, when and how of preparing and eating so as to promote balance of mind and body through balance of the three body types/doshas - Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Because the main aim of Ayurveda is to increase balance the first rule is to take it easy - introduce any changes gradually and do not be severe in your diet.

 

What to Eat

Ayurveda recognizes six tastes – sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent and six main qualities.

All foods have one or more of these tastes and Ayurveda says that you should take foods including all six tastes at each main meal. If any taste is missed out it tends to cause a craving for it.

Read more:  Maharishi Ayurvedic Dietary Guidelines

 

 

 

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