Stay natural and be healthy - Ayurvedic, a holistic approach!

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food!

Every diet system has its own style, plus and minus. And many diets have received attention on health stand point from Atkins to skinny-bitch diet. My belief is to stick with natural way of living as much as you can! 

I have personally tried attest 5 or 6 different diet systems. Typically my day 1 would start with great determination but  wont be able to keep up my enthusiasm by day2. My day3 would be feast day :) That's Vidya's diet style always ! 

Anyways jokes aside, if you want be in healthy regimen consistently, I would say you should stick with your geographical based diet system, which your body attuned for.

In that matter I believe in ayurvedic and try to follow as much as I can. 

Ayurvedic is 5000 year old system, which is still effective & competing with modern science. It is person specific , not disease specific :) that's interesting.. Huh? Basically mindfulness is the key!

It believes your health is based on mind and body, classifies 3 different doshas (vada, pitta & kapha)  and recommends related health habits. I kinda noticed that these different Dosha people fall under rakchasha, manusya, deva gana characters :). Anyways let me talk about that theory later.

For all people, there are some simple rules

1. Raise before dawn ( statistics say that people who wake up early are happy people )

2. Eat only 3 times a day ( give enough rest to your digestive system!)

3. choose your food based on your body type and season! ( that's quiet simple, huh?) 

4. Live in peace ( have you read " heal your body by yourself" by Louise hay?... Exactly!   the same principle applies here too) 

Is it tough to follow? Not at all.. Right?

For any western no-no type of foods, Ayurvedic have remedies

Eg ..milk is not that good , it is inflammatory is western theory . Ayurvedic says to warm the milk ( to reduce lactose intolerance) and add a pinch of turmeric before drinking. 1 tspn of turmeric has anti inflammatory factor of ~1200 and a glass of milk is negative 62. Bingo! :)

If you have constipation problem, western theory says to eat lot of fiber. But Ayurvedic finds out root cause and asks you to treat your digestive system . Try rasam ( cumin seeds, pepper, garlic are main ingredients here,  improving  your digestion) while constipated. You 'll see results :) lol

Ulcerative colititis: western theory says, be gluten free. Ayurvedic has proven method of curing it

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202252/

I can give much more examples, but my idea is just to give little awareness on this. Have a try! Live happy, healthy! It is such a old system, but gold :).