Tuesday, 16 August 2016

5 Food Habits That You Should Club with Yoga

Yoga is not a mere form of physical exercise where you can lose weight or be fit. It’s adopting a kind of life that paves way to gyan (knowledge), karma (service), bhakti (faith), and mantra (prayer). The impact of daily yoga is directly on a human body’s energy and conscience. Hence, it’s important that while opting for Yoga Classes, its balanced with a healthy diet. The yogic diet though prohibits consumption of many food items but has ample options for you to look upon.

Here is listing five healthy food habits that you can opt for along with daily yoga for an excellent life and immediate impact.

  • Emotional Eating
Research confirms that human bodies overeat in extreme moods like happiness or anger. Again, you might plan to give up food if life is little offbeat than the normal. This direct connect of food and mood is called ‘emotional eating’. Once you start practicing yoga daily, you got to get rid of this practice. Be very conscious and specific about the diet you pick and food you consume. It’s the blend of perfect diet and everyday yoga that can improve your lifestyle altogether.

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  • Balanced Diet
When you make a meal, make sure you include the right amount of protein, vitamin, phosphorus, potassium and so on. A gulp of high protein today and no calcium for over a week, leads to most physical imbalances. Its suggested that before you start yoga, get your body tested and consult professionals who can make your diet. A balanced diet is a primary step to a good life.
  • Liquid diet
You may wonder how you will only survive on water. Well, liquid diet has lot more to offer. How about some milk, juice or lassi. You need to know the right recipe and you can spend an entire day with healthy drinking. The internet offers wide range of recipes and there are several books on liquid diet. You can browse them for a perfect liquid diet. However, this is usually recommended not more than once in a week. However, consult your yoga expert before you plan your first liquid diet in agenda.
  • Diary food
Yoga permits having all kinds of diary food than eggs. So enrich your everyday diet with a lot of milk, butter, cheese or curd. These are rich source of calcium, potassium, protein and vitamin D. However, egg is not so accepted in yogic diet. If you are an eggeterian and wish to keep that in menu, then you got to consult your yoga mentor.
  • Food portion
This applies not only for yoga. Any human being has always found it difficult to understand how much food to consume in a meal. Well, the answer is simple. Eat 50%, drink 25% and leave the rest empty. This simply ensures faster digestion and healthy life. Overeating leads to constipation, which is very fatal for the body.
  • Healing Spices
A typical yogic diet includes some certain spices mandatorily. This is not for taste but for the medicinal values of the spices. Wondering which spices yield medicinal value? Here goes the list – cinnamon, black pepper, cardamom, coriander, cumin and saffron.
These culinary tips can be added in your life anytime. Even if you are not aspiring in yoga, you can opt for these for a healthy living ahead.

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