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When there is fever the hunger gets diminished or when we attend marriages we tend to eat a lot, again, there is absolutely no hunger felt later in the evening. We have to understand these minute indication of the body and give a chance to nature's way of acting, that is fasting. The health automatically improves because of the space available for proper digestion and elimination. It never matters if we eat a little less. That is why it is said – Eat healthy, eat in moderation and eat raw food as far as possible.
'''Cooking ''' – cooked food is an old addiction of mankind. But cooking our food and thus rendering it lifeless has become an established convention. The human body is subjected to constant wear and tear. The process of regeneration of the body requires vitamins, minerals, salts and enzymes. Vitamins and enzymes are also necessary for the digestion and assimilation of protein, carbohydrates and fats.
These enzymes and some of the vitamins are destroyed by heat.
Carbohydrates are digested either in the mouth or in the small intestine. If carbohydrates are masticated properly, the enzymes in the saliva in the mouth carry out partial digestion of the carbohydrates. But if the food is swallowed, no mastication takes place, so no digestion takes place with saliva and the carbohydrates will remain in the stomach and decay and produce toxic materials.
'''Quantity of food ''' : The ideal quantity of the food can be explained as - “Half the food, double the drinks, Tripple the exercises, Four fold the laughter”
One has to eat half the capacity of the stomach with enough of fluids. Then the digestion will be perfect.
Today the people do not practice discretion in the amount of food they take. Food these days is so spicy and savoury that the temptation to eat more and just a little more cannot be easily resisted. Excessive amounts of food is a burden on the digestive system and disrupts the process of digestion. Over eating spoils the blood composition and less eating leads to emaciation. So one has to remember – 'to keep healthy one must always remain a little hungry'.
'''Lack of exercise ''' :- Modern industrialisation has set man against all kinds of physical exertion. Intellectuals leading sedentary lives enjoy great prestige in society. The importance of physical exercise has salutary benefits to the body. Physical exercise speeds up the circulation of blood, enhances digestive power, increases perspiration and helps to remove poisons from the body.
'''Irregular life style ''' :- Modern man is constantly under pressure of business and thus irregular life style like taking food, drinks, and rest as and when he finds time. The biological rhythm is consequently disrupted and toxic wastes increase in the body inviting various diseases.
Dr.J.H. Tilden of U.S.A says:- “good health is inevitable if one gives up harmful habits and erroneous ways of life, and adopts a proper life style.”
These days people accord high priority to sensual pleasures and therefore become easy preys to objectionable and harmful habits such as addiction to tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. These dangerous habits promote the formation and accumulation of toxic substances in the body and invite dreadful diseases like cancer by keeping the mouths stuffed with betel leaves laced with tobacco.
'''Tea, Coffee and Cocoa''':- These beverages do not posses any nutritive value. These are called stimulants. Tea contains tannin which is a harful substance.
If these beverages are taken in large quantities, they cause constipation, insomnia, nervous tension, quickened breathing and other internal disorders. Coffee increases the proportion of fats in the blood. If this condition persists for a long time the fat gets deposited on the walls of the blood vessels which get hardened and constricted. Gradually the blood pressure rises, the heart is overburdened and the risk of heart attack increases.
Therefore not more than two cups of coffee or tea should be taken in a day.
'''Alcoholic Drinks ''' :- All alcoholic drinks are regarded as vitamin robbers. They steal and destroy the nutrients of the system. They weaken the individual physically and mentally. Hard liquors are very harmful. They have deleterious effects on the nerves and the heart. Their effect on the digestive system is extremely bad. Alcohol blunts hunger, causes irritation and swelling of the lining of the stomach and impairs the functions of the liver. So one must avoid these drinks and never offer them in parties.
'''Smoking ''' :- All packets of cigarettes bear the warning that cigarette smoking is injurious to health. Inspite of this warning, not only illiterate but literates find it impossible to give up smoking. Once they have formed the habit. They become slaves of the habit.
There is a direct relation between smoking and heart disease.
