Stay Fit, Live Healthy & Feel Young Series 20

Yoga and Sathvik aahar

🍒 Detox diet is increasingly popular across the globe since they offer fantastic health benefits, claiming to leave you feeling relaxed, refreshed and rejuvenated.

🍒 Yoga focus on our pure inner nature, where in diet plays key part in this process. Yogic philosophy divide food into three types: sathvik, or pure; rajasic, or stimulating; and tamasic, or impure. Yogic diet is based on pure and whole sum, sathvik foods which is a detox diet.

🍒 Rajasic foods overstimulate the body and mind,and cause physical and mental stress, and encourage circulatory and nervous disorders. Refined Sugar, soft drinks, heavily spiced and salted items are rajasic.Yogic diet avoids substances that are rajasic.

🍒 Tamasic substances are avoided in the yogic diet because they produce feelings of heaviness and lethargy. Meat, fish, packaged foods those containing preservatives,drugs,alchol are tamasic, This diet benefits neither body nor mind. It makes a person dull and lazy, lacking in high ideals, purpose, and motivation.

🍒 Yogic diet consists of sathvik foods that calm the mind and sharpen the intellect. These are pure, wholesome,and naturally delicious, without preservatives or artificial flavourings. They include fresh and dried fruits, pure fruit juices, raw or semi boiled vegetables, salads, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, honey, whole meal breads, herbal teas, fresh herbs, milk and butter. A sathvik diet is easily digested and provides maximum energy, increasing vitality, strength and endurance. It promotes cheerfulness, serenity, and mental clarity, and helps to maintain poise and nervous equilibrium throughout the day.

🍒 Satvik aahar, as detox food, cleanse the digestive system, and help the body to eliminate waste products and various toxins absorbed from the air, soil, water and food, as well as toxic substances produced by the body itself.

🍒 Don't overload your system. Fill half the stomach with food, one quarter with liquid,and leave the rest empty. Eat slowly, and savour your food and maintain a peaceful attitude during the meal.

🍒Remember 'purity of mind depends on purity of food '.