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Stay Healthy
If you check your constitution and follow the basic diet, sleep pattern and exercises, you can stay healthy all year round.
Know your constitution
To stay healthy, one must live in harmony with nature - with a natural balance. To practice this art of living with a natural balance, it is important to know one's own unique constitution and follow a suitable lifestyle.
It is so simple and anyone can do it! It makes life so much more enjoyable. To prevent disease and maintain optimum health, check your constitution.
Healthy eating
In addition to determining the constitution, there are a number of important factors for maintaining good health, related to the diet. This includes foods eaten, time difference between two meals, combination and quantity of foods, cleanliness and proper eating.
Food should be fresh, hot, tasty and easy to digest.
There should be at least a four hour difference between any two meals.
Restrict the number of items in one meal. The items taken in one meal should not contradict each other. For example, (milk and orange juice).
* A feeling of tiredness or heaviness in the stomach after eating, indicates improper eating practices.
* Food should be taken only when hungry and strictly according to digestive power.
* Do not eat while watching television or while reading. Eat in peaceful and pleasant surroundings.
* Do not rush eating or eat too slowly. Chew the food thoroughly.
* Fruits should not be mixed with meals. Either take a separate meal constituted only of fruits or eat fruits as a snack between two meals.
* Do not drink water one hour before or after meals though it is fine to drink it in small quantities with meals.
Proper sleeping
Proper, regulated sleep is very important to maintain the balance of functions in the body. "Early to bed and early to rise" is the key to good health. For an average person, six hours sleep is sufficient. Excessive sleeping contributes to disease.Adequate exercise
Regular exercise according to your constitution is extremely beneficial for good health. Yoga is advised as the best type of exercise as it takes care of physical, mental and spiritual health. Yoga and Ayurveda go hand in hand, as the aim of both these sciences is to give perfect health and attain liberation through God consciousness.
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