- Do not drink water during meals. Drink water once after meals. Too much
water drunk frequently will dilute and weaken the gastric juice and produce
dyspepsia or indigestion.
Do not take pungent and spiced articles and too much salt and chutney. You will
not have much thirst. Drink a small quantity of water after meals.
- Do not use-refined food. Include in your diet coarse food such as oatmeal,
whole meal bread, and homemade rusks. This is good for the teeth and jaws to
have exercise. Rough food stimulates the elimination of waste matter. Rusks
strengthen the teeth of children. - Do not insist on elaborate cooking. Simplify your meals. Serve as much food
as possible raw. - Do not taken meat. It is an unnatural Tamasic food. Take instead whole meal
bread. It is very easily digested and assimilated. It is a natural laxative. It
contains more nourishment than meat. Take it with butter and honey. Add fruits
and vegetables. This is a complete and well-balanced meal. - Do not take tinned foods, as they have become deteriorated by the cooking
process. They contain poisonous chemicals and preservatives. Food poisoning
takes place. - Do not use vinegar. It is a product of fermentation. It retards digestion.
- Do not add Soda in cooking vegetables as it destroys vitamin B and C.
- Do not take strong spices and condiments. They irritate the mucus
membrane of the intestines. You can use a little Jeera or cumin seed. - Do not use Vanaspati or vegetable oil. It is absolutely useless. It is a poison.
It generates various diseases. Give up vanaspati entirely. Shun it ruthlessly. - Do not take coffee, tea, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, cannabis indica, opium
or stimulants of any kind.