Celebrating The First International Day of Yoga
Yoga_Life_Winter_2015_WEB
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DIET AND NUTRITION<br />
<strong>The</strong> Solution<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is an ancient doctrine, time tested for 2,500 years, that<br />
your food shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be<br />
your food (Hippocrates, 460 – 372 BC, the forefather <strong>of</strong> modern,<br />
scientific medicine). In order to lose weight we must eat the<br />
right food ie: proper carbohydrates, proper fats, and proper<br />
protein. Carbohydrates to provide proper energy, fat to give<br />
proper reserves and proteins for an optimal hormonal balance.<br />
“Only a proper diet can reduce obesity<br />
and prevent the threat <strong>of</strong> a global catas -<br />
t rophe in countries with a western diet”<br />
Conclusion<br />
Only a proper diet can reduce obesity and prevent the threat<br />
<strong>of</strong> a global catastrophe in countries with a western diet. Most<br />
importantly we need to provide people with correct information<br />
on the relationship between health and disease. We are bom -<br />
barded by the media with completely irrelevant and even<br />
sometimes grotesquely inaccurate information on this issue.<br />
Furthermore polls show that obese college students, for<br />
example, do inform themselves about healthy eating, but<br />
prolong its implementation due to lack <strong>of</strong> practicality. And<br />
although they may already be late in addressing their problem,<br />
it’s never too late to start. n<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sivananda <strong>Yoga</strong> Vedanta Centres express their gratitude<br />
to Dr Gerhard Brand for sharing his medical insight on the<br />
topic <strong>of</strong> nutrition.<br />
Dr. Gerhard Brand MD. email: brand@magicghost.de<br />
Here are a few lines on the yogic<br />
approach to diet:<br />
“Let the yogi eat moderately and abstemiously; otherwise,<br />
however clever, he cannot gain success.” Siva Samhita<br />
<br />
Yogis are aware <strong>of</strong> and try to live by this ancient wisdom:<br />
there is a relationship between physical and mental wellbeing<br />
and diet. Yogis eat to live and do not live to eat. <strong>The</strong><br />
goal is a pure and natural diet, wholesome, well-balanced,<br />
easy to digest, supplying the body with a maximum <strong>of</strong><br />
nutrients and energy.<br />
<br />
In Swami Sivananda’s words: “Eat moderately what<br />
you know by experience is agreeable to you and what<br />
is digestible. Simple diet is the best“.<br />
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