yoga and diet.

Yoga and Diet

Eating the right food to coincide with the other four principles of yoga is essential to a healthier body and lifestyle, a healthy diet compliments your yoga exercises, breathing, relaxation and meditation. It is important to eat a well balanced diet, you will notice the benefits by feeling fitter and quicker. Although yoga diet is not your average diet, you can lose weight eating healthier foods, if you don't wish to become a vegetarian, just following the basic yoga diet plan will make you that much fitter.

Fasting

Yoga diet is not always about what you eat, it's also about fasting also, this is a form of physical cleansing, purification. By fasting we are giving our digestive systems a chance to rest, on average, we make our digestive organs work three times a day, that is OK if the right foods are consumed but a rest is always good. Fasting helps our body to rest from over indulgence, also to free us from toxin. We must be careful on how to fast. simple guide lines must be taken.

• Always go one day at a time, this will give you a feel on how fasting can feel and how you cope with it, if you do one day at a time this makes going for longer periods in the future, you will adjust easier.
  

• If you are someone who eats three full meals a day and have a habit of snacking in between meals, then fasting will not be easy for you. maybe if you try eating one healthy meal a day with vegetables and grains for lunch and instead of snacking on food, drink fresh juices and water instead, not only will this be beneficial to your health, it will also make fasting one day at a time easier for when you are ready.
  

• There are different types of fasting, water, fruit juices or vegetable juices, when you have decided which one suits you best, stick to it, sip slowly, it is advisable to take around seven glasses a day whilst fasting.
  

• The idea of fasting is to try and proceed to increasing the amount of days in which to fast. some people can go for 5 days fasting but if you find it difficult, try snacking on days in between on light foods such as vegetables, soups, fruits or juices then fast the following day, eventually, your body will become adapted to fasting easier.
  

The right foods

• A proper yoga diet comprises of the following
• Wholemeal bread
• cereals
• Yogurt
• fresh fruit
• fresh veg
• pastas, potatoes and rice
• fruit juices
• milk
• seeds
• nuts and lintels
• cheese
• butter
• herbs
• honey
• wholemeal foods.

Despite beliefs and suspicions from meat eaters, vegetarians actually have a better balance diet than if they were meat eaters themselves. Everything a vegetarian eats has all the vital ingredients, not all vegetarian food is uninteresting, bland or dull. compared to meat eaters, vegetarians have a lower track record of heart diseases, cancer, kidney diseases and stroke, their Resistance to such diseases are stronger also, cases of obesity is lower in vegetarians than meat eaters.

I hope this has been of use to you. If you wish to know more please visit our web page on the yoga book or if you would like your company or a group to get involved with yoga then go see our corporate page. also have a look at the yoga CD