Health is
wealth. We take our health for granted, until it's gone. Here are 5 great
tips that will make a world of difference to your health.
Eat at fixed hours
Eat at fixed
hours everyday. If you follow this advice religiously, you will be far
healthier than your peers. Don't wait till you have reached the age when
you can no longer say 'you are only old in the mind'. Start eating your
meals at a fixed hour everyday. Only when a person becomes a grandmother,
does he or she start realizing the importance of eating meals at a fixed
time. Begin now, so the next to next generation can say of you: "Hell,
no! That ain't my mother, that's my great grandmother!"
Avoid eating between
meals
Your digestive
system doesn't get a break if you keep munching throughout the day, so
give it a rest. Breakfast at 8:30 am, lunch at 12:30 pm and dine at 7:30
or 8:00 pm at the latest, and do not eat anything in the middle. If you
must, take a milk and snack break once in the evening, but no more. However,
if you are looking to lose weight, dine even earlier and skip your evening
snack entirely.
Reduce meat consumption
Avoid eating
red meat and too much of chicken. Fish is fine, as it is very high protein.
Other meats are not as easy to digest. Ever notice how doctors advise certain
patients to stop consuming non-vegetarian food? Ever notice how many people,
as they advance in age, choose to give up meat? That's because these people's
systems can no longer take so much meat. The human body was not built to
consume flesh, which is why humans ultimately have to switch to shakahari
food. A cow will starve to death in a grassless land, but will not eat
meat, and a lion will die of hunger, but will not feed on grass. Why? Nature
has made the lion a meat-eater. He has well-developed canines, and a 'short'
long intestine to quickly expel meat before it develops toxins. Humans
on the other hand have extremely poorly developed canines, appropriate
for chewing vegetables, not for tearing flesh. In addition, they have 'long'
long intestines, rendering it impossible (unless you have a bad stomach)
to expel the meat before it goes bad in the body and starts spreading toxins.
Increase soyabean consumption
Most of us
know that soyabeans are excellent providers of nutrients, but how many
of us eat this rich food? An easy way to include soyabeans in our diet
is to add 500 gm of soyabean in 10 kg of wheat before it is milled. Eat
these soya/wheat chapattis instead of regular wheat chapattis for a healthy,
nutritious option.
Enjoy your meal
Don't rush through
your meals.
Chew your food
properly, so your system finds it easier to digest.
Have a lively
conversation during meals.
Turn mealtimes
into family time. Try and ensure that everyone eats at least one meal in
a day together. Don't give your children meals in their room unless they
have friends over. Make sure they sit with the rest of the family. If this
is a rule from the beginning, they will find abide by it with more ease
as they grow up.
Remove the television
from the dining room, or let it play music. You should not be watching
the tube while eating, you should be talking to each other, remember?
Believe it or
not, enjoying a meal is actually far healthier than eating when depressed
or anxious.
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