Balanced Diet
"Not that we do not have food. We do not have the sense of what to eat and what not to eat.
Roti, rice, and potato they are all carbohydrates.
We do not have the sense of what is amino acids, protein, and carbohydrates.
The traditional food system was the best.
My grandmother used to be very particular what food should be served.
They would have rice, ghee, and dal.
Also there should be one item with yogurt, greens must be there, one bitter item like bitter gourd. Leaves of the neem should be had once every 12 days.
To chase away malnutrition you do not have to invest a lot of money, just education is required.
In India we always had jaggery which has iron, zinc, magnesium. Instead of this we have switched to white sugar.
Cane juice is very nutritious, it can solve many illnesses.
At 95, my grandmother was so healthy, my mother was not.
Because they followed the traditional food system.
The leaves of drumstick are so good. When the ghee is made, they would put a drumstick leaf.
Have balanced food.
If you have noticed, all fried food is accompanied by curry leaves.
Curry leaves arrests bad cholesterol getting formed in the system.
Idli is the most nutritious food.
Chuntney provides fiber.
It has proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates, a little fat.
Instead we take white bread and put butter on it and put it in our mouth.
What does it have? Nothing.
Today's fashion is pizza.
White sugar and white flour is not at all good from the nutritional point of view.
We need to educate people on proper food.
What is good food?
What to consume?
How to keep your health and vitality?
This knowledge is there in Ayurveda.
If you know what to eat, you will not get disease.
If you know how to talk, you will not get into a fight."
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
