Ayurveda Diet Tips for Healthy Lifestyle
- Eat when hungry only
- Try to stick to routine meals. If your digestive fire is working optimally then you will automatically feel hungry at the same time each day.
- Sip on warm water or herbal tea through the day.
- When eating half fill the stomach with food, a quarter with warm water and a quarter, leave empty. This will strengthen the digestive fire or Agni.
- Eat your main meal at lunch time as this is the time when the digestive fire is at full strength.
- Have a light breakfast and dinner as much as possible
- Do not bathe for 3 hours after eating.
- Do not exercise for 3 hours after eating.
- Minimise snacking. Snacking weakens the digestive fire as it gets no rest. If you feel you need a snack take one mid morning and mid afternoon. When snacking avoid grains. Stick to fruits or soups.
- Minimise eating raw salads as these are hard to digest. If you find it difficult to avoid salads, then take them at lunch time only with a good mustard based salad dressing.
- Do not mix fruits with other food and that too have a single fruit only. Having fruit with other foods can lead to fermentation
- Avoid fruits which are under ripe and overripe. Under-ripe fruits are difficult to digest and overripe foods lead to fermentation.
- Try and have warm cooked food only as this is easier to digest.
- Try to make sure you have a whole grain with each meal as well as a variety of tastes. Whole grains need to form the major part of your meal in most cases
