Vedic nutrition has a tremendous effect on the human body, mental and spiritual abilities. Important are the right products, their preparation, and the time of eating. We will study the basic postulates on which the Vedic food is based, as well as many tips from O. Torsunov on how to eat in order to stay healthy and live a long life.
Let us first consider what special dietary regimes exist and what the Vedas offer.
Pranoanalysis
“Prana” in the teaching of yoga means “energy”, “life”. Prano-eating also means that a person literally feeds on air. To maintain its vital functions, prana or vitality, as well as the sun, are necessary. Indeed, according to Ayurveda, it is this heavenly luminary that is the main source of prana.
Vegetarianism
This diet involves refusing to eat animal corpses. Do not eat fish, meat, poultry and even seafood. Some vegetarians refuse milk with eggs. Also, vegans who strictly monitor their diet have different attitudes towards honey. But they relate mushrooms to plant foods, despite the fact that from a scientific point of view they stand out in a separate kingdom.
Raw food diet
This system involves the complete exclusion from the diet of dishes that have undergone heat treatment, that is, cooked, fried, smoked and others. The rationale for raw food is the desire to preserve all the useful substances and trace elements in the foods used.
Separate food
This principle is based on compatible and incompatible products. Separate nutrition was developed by naturopathologist Gelbert Shelton. The concept includes a table that determines the compatibility of certain products.
Vedic Nutrition
The basis of the system is vegetarianism. Food excludes from the diet not only any meat, eggs and fish, but also mushrooms, tea and coffee. However, it is assumed that both the choice of products and the method of their preparation. Food should be prepared in a good mood and with love. After all, if the food was prepared with hatred, anger and irritation, there would definitely be no benefit from it.
Breakfast
Best if the first meal is before 8 in the morning. A hearty breakfast does not make sense, since with a weakened body this will only take away strength and lead to illness. Since all the fiery energy in the body is at its peak from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., breakfast should be over by this time. Then the food just starts to be digested at the right time. In the morning, food may be slightly sweetened. The following products are suitable for this time of day:
- fruits, berries;
- cottage cheese with sour cream, kefir, condensed milk;
- nuts
- honey, sugar and jam;
- dried fruits, butter;
- dried apricots.
Breakfast and seasons
In the summer, solar energy most of all reaches the Earth and affects a person. At such a time, it is recommended to eat berries and fruits, honey, sugar, and from milk - drink fermented baked milk or kefir.
In autumn, when prana intensifies, berries, fruits and kefir are better to eat less. At this time, you can start to use more cheese, sour cream, condensed milk, as these products warm the body.
In the coldest season, only warming foods are suitable. In addition to the above, dried fruits, nuts are recommended. Mint and anise are not suitable for winter, as they have a cooling effect.
In the spring, warming foods are also eaten, but with them, berries and fruits are gradually added to the diet.
It turns out that time and nutrition are interdependent according to the Vedas. If you have breakfast before 6 in the morning, then the diet can be approximately the same for any time of the year. This is condensed milk, nuts, dates and raisins, other dried fruits, butter.
Separately, it should be said about fresh milk, but we will dwell on it a little later.
Food is digested differently depending on the time of year. When a person eats sweets in the goodness in the afternoon, he gains happiness. However, their use in the evening leads to a decrease in tone and even metabolic disorders. The body is overexcited and it turns out to fall asleep only with great difficulty. This may be one of the causes of chronic diseases. Kefir, drunk at night, can be used as a therapeutic agent for a short time. However, with constant use, it also overexcites the body and in an accelerated mode helps to remove nutrients from it. This product is best used in the daytime.
Proper Vedic nutrition for morning time will enable a person to receive a large charge of positive energy for the next day. Indeed, happiness directly depends, including, on the organization of one’s time and regime in the morning.
Dinner
Vedic lunch hours can be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. When the sun is at its zenith, it’s the best time for the body to digest. If you eat at this time, then by 13 o’clock the food will begin to be well digested.
The most suitable food during lunch is vegetables that can be cooked, soups, milk cereals, seasonings and snacks. Beans and grains may also be consumed. They well contribute to the activation of the brain. However, these cultures should be eaten from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., since at other times they, on the contrary, will only impede thinking and feeling, reducing attention and even willpower. And if there are cereals in the evening, then they can become the causes of the formation of phosphate stones in the kidneys.
Nutrition Features and Human Activity
If you go to bed when the food is left unfinished, then toxins will be released all night in the digestive tract. In the morning, a huge dose of them will be absorbed with blood, after which the process of destruction of the body will start. The most negative impact in this case is on the nervous system. As a result, a person wakes up, feeling overwhelmed, weak and tired.
Many believe that they simply did not sleep at night. Therefore, they continue to lie in bed yet, have breakfast later, dine after 14 hours.
But Vedic nutrition can change the morning state. When you want to eat a little in the first hours after sleep, you can have breakfast just a little bit and do business. Then comes lunch time, when you can eat as much food as the body needs. It is at this time that the digestive process is as active as possible. Therefore, even if a lot of food is eaten, then heaviness in the stomach and fatigue will not be felt. Then a long rest after dinner will not be needed at all.
If in the morning there were cereals for breakfast, then we get a qualitatively different picture. Even after two hearty dinners, already by dinner you will want to eat well again. Then fat will be deposited. To avoid this, especially Vedic nutrition for women at lunchtime should be carried out according to the following recommendations:
- If desired, you can drink a warm liquid at least half an hour before meals.
- For lunch, it is good to eat vegetable salad, which activates the gastrointestinal tract. However, excessive consumption of it can cause less efficient digestion.
- A good choice for this time of the day are stewed vegetables, which are jammed with bread.
- Soups further increase digestive activity, but they should not be too thin.
- Porridge is good to use along with hot spices.
- At the very end, you can afford some sweets.
It is better to drink water before and after meals, after waiting at least half an hour, and even better an hour. But if you really want liquid during a meal, then you can also afford it.
After eating, the health of the body decreases slightly, and this is understandable. Whatever the constitution of the body and nutrition, it is best at this time to take a walk in the fresh air or read an article that is simple to read.
Particular attention should be paid to symptoms suggesting that a person has poor digestion. So, this can be judged with confidence if:
- the urge to empty the bowel appears two hours after eating;
- there is a decrease in activity, working capacity, drowsiness is observed for 2 hours after lunch;
- there is a strong weakness, nausea and vomiting reflex (which indicates poisoning);
- aversion to food or food (the latter may mean that they do not suit you);
- the occurrence of irritability, discomfort in the mouth and abdomen, flatulence, gas and heaviness in the intestines;
- fever, dizziness, weakness, acute pain, vomiting, and even panic fear are signs of serious poisoning.
Thus, we can conclude that the Vedic regime of the day and nutrition can improve health, increase overall performance and give vigor for the rest of the day.
Dinner
In the evening, it is best to eat stewed vegetables with spices and salt, nuts and butter. Buckwheat is also shown at this time. Vegetables and nuts will give a person peace, relieve mental stress and activate the activity of hormones, calming the nerves.
It is advisable that dinner time be no later than 18 hours, as it is then that the activity of the body increases, since the sun is hidden behind the horizon. Food at this point should be eaten. However, if it turned out that returning home was late and hunger would not let you sleep, you can quench it with vegetables and nuts.
Vedic dinner recipes usually include vegetables that grow above the ground. These are zucchini, cucumbers, squash and cabbage. You can also add greens to your food. But it is better to refuse a tomato for dinner. Potatoes are also better to eat less.
It is better to completely abandon dairy products, fruits and grains, as they will interfere with sleep, overexciting the body. And if there are legumes and grains at this time, then there is a great risk of accumulation of phosphate stones in the gall bladder and kidneys.
1-2 hours before bedtime, it’s good to drink some boiled fresh milk, which can also be slightly sweetened.
Milk
Interestingly, Vedic nutrition for children and adults involves the use of milk. This product has tremendous power, it can be drunk by adults only until six in the morning and after six in the evening. Cow's milk contains the benevolent power of the moon. Therefore, using it at such a time, you enter into harmony with this celestial body. Then the dream becomes deeper. Milk is drunk hot, adding a little fennel or green cardamom. In the morning, up to 6 hours, you can add a little sugar or honey to it.
If there is not enough optimism in life, then it is best to drink milk in the morning. And if, on the contrary, it is experiencing severe overstrain, it is better to drink it at night.
If you decide to switch to Vedic nutrition, it is better to study and select recipes in advance. Do not neglect milk, as it can have a huge healing effect on the human mind.
To be healthy, you need to eat foods on time. This applies to both milk and other products.
Conclusion
In the article, we examined the basics of a special food system. Trying to apply it or not is a private matter for everyone. It remains to note the pros and cons of Vedic nutrition. We have already considered the advantages. The disadvantages include vegetarianism itself. After all, not everyone is able to refuse a delicious fried piece of meat or fish. But even if we take some of the principles of the proposed system into service and apply them, the state of human health, both physical and mental, can significantly improve.