Food and health - 5

THE RIGHT EATING STRATEGY

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Most of the people do not know the proper eating strategy. They mostly think whatever we eat goes to our intestine and gets digested. So, they do not give much importance to the eating method. But, there is a strategy which was followed by our ancestors which is to give way to a healthy lifestyle. Let’s look at it.

We consume food to develop our body, to extract the nutrients from the food we eat. We have to eat food to achieve those things. The right eating strategy is the method which is traditionally followed by our ancestors. If we follow that, we surely get a healthy lifestyle.

THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR BEFORE EATING:

       Before we take food, we should concentrate on some things. What are they? Let’s look...

1. Disposal of waste from our body:

In the morning, before consuming breakfast, you should finish the urination and defecation process. Then, before lunch and dinner we should finish urination. This helps the stomach to take food and energize. 

2. Wash your face, hands and legs:

        Before we start to eat, we should wash our faces, hands and legs cleanly. It helps to take food in the clean hands. If we wash, we get freshness and our nerves rejuvenate. These nerves rejuvenating will help in excess saliva secretion. This saliva secretion helps in the fast digestion process. So we should practice the habit of washing our faces, hands and legs before eating.

3. Walking and talking:

        People can be classified into two types. One is those people without much hard work and simply sitting in the house, and the other is the people who come from work and eat in an urgent.

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In the first category people should do a little walk and start eating. This is good for health. The second category of people, who come from work in an urge and eat food fast and go back to work, should avoid this. Just sit back and talk with people for some time, and then they can start eating leisurely. If they follow this relaxed eating method, they live long with sound health.   

4. Sitting in the floor while eating:

        Nowadays, people are mostly sitting at a dining table while eating. Inevitably, at functions, we can use table chairs for sitting while eating, and it may give comfort too.

In South Indian culture, we follow sitting on the floor and sitting cross-legged while eating. If you sit like this, the body is in a straight 90 degrees, and the blood circulation will be in the stomach part rather than the area below the hip. So it will make the digestion process easier.

Sitting cross-legged – Sugasana - promotes blood circulation by relaxing the nerves and relieving strain on them. Blood circulation is one of the most critical aspects of digestion. Our hearts tend to work overtime to assist our digestive system in order to keep up with this process. Sitting on the floor and eating can help in this situation.

There's a reason monks meditate on the ground rather than sitting in seats! According to many religious and spiritual views, connecting with the spiritual side is easier when you sit on the floor at the same level as children and animals.

In India, sitting and eating is a relatively new phenomenon. Even maharajas – the kings used to eat while sitting on the floor. Chairs are still uncommon in many parts of India and Asia. The fact that humans can sit on the floor with such ease demonstrates that our bodies have been doing so for a long time.

If we sit at the dining table, our legs are hanging and blood flow will be higher in the toes than in the middle part of the body. The digestion process does not get enough blood circulation, and the digestion process would be difficult.

        This is the reason why Indians follow the method of sitting on the floor while eating.

5. Use Banana leaf and plates:

        The South Indians use the banana leaf for serving food on it for eating. It is fresh, and we can clean it with water. We can serve food on the banana leaf and eat. It is the traditional method of healthy eating.

Eating on the banana leaf is not only delicious, environmentally good, hygienic, and convenient, but it is also chemical-free. In every manner, eating on a banana leaf is beneficial. It's high in poly-phenols, which are natural antioxidants present in green tea as well. These poly-phenols fight all of the body's free radicals and keep illnesses at bay. Poly-phenol oxidase, an enzyme used to treat Parkinson's disease, is abundant in the banana leaf.

Banana leaves also contain unusual antibacterial capabilities that help digestion by killing pathogens in the diet. Banana leaves also have a wax covering that gives them a shiny appearance and imparts a mild flavour to the hot food served on them.

The ancient people used mud plates for serving food. This is also a healthy eating habit. Now, people use metal plates instead of banana leaf and mud plates.

Good metals:

Using silver plates, glass plates, China clay plates and bronze plates is good.

Silver:

Eating with a silver plate and drinking in a silver tumbler promotes a healthy metabolism and immune system. Furthermore, dining with silverware has been shown to prevent a variety of health issues.

In India, people use silver vessels for newborn babies. Silver is the metal that is free from bacteria, no toxins are present, and it boosts the immunity.

Iron:

Use iron vessels for cooking. The iron cookware is the greatest option since it naturally releases iron, which is necessary for proper bodily function. In fact, several studies have shown that cooking with iron utensils is beneficial to pregnant women since it gives the optimum nutrients for the baby's development in the womb.

Harmful metals for cooking:

Please avoid using copper vessels, brass vessels, aluminium vessels and plastic vessels for food serving and cooking. It leads to many diseases.

Aluminium vessels:

Don’t use aluminium; because aluminium heats up quickly and reacts easily with acidic vegetables and foods, it's best to avoid cooking with it. These chemical processes will affect the immune system.

Copper vessels:

        Copper utensils are excellent for drinking water; however, they are not appropriate for cooking. Because of their reactivity, copper containers should be avoided when cooking salty foods. The iodine in salt interacts immediately with copper, releasing many more copper particles.

Copper utensils are frequently avoided when cooking because this isn't very good for our bodies. Furthermore, if a copper cooking pot is not adequately lined, it leaks dangerous compounds into the food when it is placed on the flame.

Brass vessels:

Brass is one of the common metals, which is why the most traditional dishes are still prepared with brass equipment. Because of the thick base of the utensil, several old chicken recipes, mutton recipes and biryani recipes were cooked in enormous brass vessels. When heated, brass reacts with salty foods, which is not good for our health. Brass is not as dangerous as other utensils and can be used (with caution) once in a while.

These are the best methods of eating. Please try to follow this and live healthily and happily. 

 

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