Yoga and Total Health — January 2018

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Chapter 1.

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The Yo g i may partake nourishing food, well sweetened, mixed with butter and

milk products, which builds up the body and which satisfies one’s taste and is

proper.

NOTE: The commentator elaborates the point that the food should be appetizing

and not tasteless. However, such appetizing food should not be unwholesome

also. Tasteless food is less digestible in absence of necessary gastric juices, since

the process of proper digestion is not merely physiological, as generally believed.

The part played by psychology, even in matter of digestion, and therefore in

the selection of diet, was no secret to the Yogis. Artificially prepared appetizing

food creates unbalanced stimulation of the salivary glands, and is therefore

unwholesome. ‘Proper’ means both adequate and satisfying.