Saturday, July 12, 2008

DIET CHART

Diet chart:( For Therapeutic Yoga Practitioner)..

Breakfast (7 to 9A.M.):

1. Orange juice or any fruit juice, - 1 cup.
2. Fresh apple or any fresh fruit. – 1.
3. Germinated grams.- ¼Th cup.
4. Wheat bread or Roti & vegetables
or Dalia & vegetables or corn flacks
with milk.
5.Horlicks. – 1 cup.

Lunch:

1. Salad ( a mixture of tomato, cucumber, - 1 cup.
Radish, lettuce, carrot, etc..
With salt, pepper and lemon juice or
Salad dressing ).
2. Vegetable soup - 1 cup.
3. Rice or wheat bread or roti
4. Pulse.- 1 cup
5. Cooked green leafy vegetables (sabji)
6. Cooked green fresh vegetables of any kind (sabji)
7. Curd .

Afternoon Refreshments (3 to 5 P.M).

1. Fresh fruit of any type.
2. Salted biscuits or any light food.
(Easily digestible).
3. Cheese. – 1 slice.
4. Horlicks - 1 cup.


Dinner:

1. Salad. – 1 cup.
2. vegetable soup. - 1 cup.
3. Wheat bread or Roti - 2 or 3.
4. Pulse.
5. Cooked green vegetables

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Eat balanced diet which include salad, fresh green vegetables and fresh fruits along with other dishes of the day. Eat at least two hours before going to bed at night. Eat not more than about eighty five percent of your capacity. Eat slowly after chewing the food very thoroughly. Do not drink water during meals, but only about after half an hour of finishing your meals.

Take ten to twelve glasses of water everyday.

Avoid fried, roasted and spicy food. Exclude red pepper, pickles, hot spices, chutney and arhar dal from your menu. Non vegetarians should avoid meat.

Do not take more than two cups of tea or coffee, do not take coke and other aerated drinks. If possible stop drinking tea and coffee. Avoid taking bed-tea or drinking water as you get up in the morning.

Diabetic patients must avoid fried, fatty, spicy, starchy and sugar-containing food, for a period of four to five months from the date of starting yoga practice; the diabetic patient should not take rice, potato, banana, orange, mangoes and such fruits in which the percentage of sugar is high.
They can take an apple a day. Non vegetarians can add small quantities of fish, liver and eggs in their diet but should avoid meat or chicken for a few months..