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  Every living being is food for another जीवो जीवस्य जीवनं   – Shrimad Bhagavatam Jivo jivasya jivanam meaning every living being is food for another. This shows that a living being has to eat another living being to live a life. As we can see we cannot eat stones and sand to be alive. We have to eat only living beings such as plants, fruits, legumes, nuts, fish, animals etc.   There is always a long and furious debate going on between people on vegetarianism vs. meat eating. People who stick to vegetarian diet do so for various reasons such as religious faith, moral grounds on not to kill animals, environmental reasons and more importantly for health and hygiene reasons. While plants, fruits, legumes and nuts have a life, it is of the thought that vegetarians cause less pain to these beings as compared to the pain and horror caused to the animals by the meat eater. At least we do not see the plants defending for their life and we also do not see any blood as we cut the p...

  The process of eating or ingestion is supposed to be one of the most important process to focus for our healthy living, according to our ancestors. However we all know that in modern times we have thousands of excuses not to learn these principles and adopt them but we are somehow ready to take up diseases and live with that rather than trying to stay away from them by using these ancient wisdom.   பசித்துப் புசி Eat when you are hungry. Hunger is the body’s language of talking to us to say it is ready to digest the food that is ingested. When there is no hunger then it means body is not ready to digest the food or it does not have the digestive fluids ready such as hydrochloric acid and other enzymes required for digestion. Unfortunately in modern times this very basic knowledge is completely ignored, with most people taking food on a given specific time without checking their body if it is really hungry or not. If one is getting hungry on a regular time interval then it is...

  It is quite natural and common thing to do, Isn't it ?  While we eat we all drink water or other soft drinks along with the food. In fact we tend to fill our stomach with water or drinks even before the food arrives in our table when we go to restaurants. I always felt this was not correct and I would always finish the meal before I touch my water or drinks. One of the reasons I would do that is, I lose the appetite very soon if I drink water before or during the meal. Some of my friends would be surprised to see me as they would say that they cannot do this for a million dollar! For every one or two bites of the meal they would for sure sip lot of water or Coke. I am sure that is the case with many of us.  While researching the science behind this, I found some useful and very reasonable arguments. Hunger is nothing but the secretion of hydro chloric acid in the stomach. We all know that when you put water to an acid it becomes diluted or becomes a weak acid. A weak ac...

Five Elements – First steps for Healthy Living. Earth: ·          Eat only when you are hungry. ·          Chewing the food to make it into small pieces and mixing well with the saliva, helps for better digestion due to the enzymes in the saliva. Proper chewing also helps for strong teeth and dental health. ·          Eat while you eat. It means no TV, no cell phone, no computer, no work, no talking while eating. ·          Food ranking: Uncooked Fruits and vegetables (rank 1) are the most nutritious and should be taken everyday. Cooked vegetarian food (rank 2) should be taken within 6 hrs of cooking. Non-vegetarian food (rank 3) should be of limited intake. Factory processed food,packed food, fast food, carbonated soft/caffeinated drinks, tea, coffee, preservative added food, (rank 4) should be avoided by all means. ...

  Secret of Work   Working for the sake of work according to Bagavath Gita, the ancient book of wisdom gifted by India to this entire world, is a wonderful concept. As a youngster I never understood this, how can you work without expecting a pay check, how can u work without expecting some recognition for the good work you have done, how can you work without expecting a career growth or more precisely promotion, pay raise etc. Well that’s the problem, most of the time, we cannot work without expecting some thing in return.   However the concept of “Work for the sake of work and Love for the sake of Love - do not trade either in work or in love” is said in a broader sense. However I believe it can be applied in the smallest of the situations in our lives. Having this attitude of not looking at the fruits of the work, while doing the work can be psychologically helpful too. When we say fruits of the work we are talking about the benefits which we expect, not the outc...