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—Swami Sivananda—
- Eat when you are really hungry. Beware of false hunger.
- Eat less, masticate more. Chew every morsel of food 30 times. Do not eat rapidly.
- Fast once a week. Fasting eliminates the poison, overhauls the internal mechanism of the body and gives rest to the organs.
- Do not overload the stomach. Take moderate (neither too much nor too little) diet. Stop eating when three quarters of the stomach is full.
- Include always some raw vegetables (like, cucumber and radish) in your food.
- Eat only four or five kinds of food at one meal. Avoid too many mixtures and combinations.
- Take only ripe fruits.
- Do not take tinned fruits. Do not overcook vegetables. Do not throw away the water in which rice and vegetables are boiled. Drink this water.
- Do not eat when you are angry.
- Do not take food when the breath is passing through the left nostril.
- Take food as a medicine. Give up gluttony.
- Do not eat between meals. Do not drink water when you are taking food. Do not eat late at night.
- Take food at fixed hours. Take only two meals.
- Talk less or observe silence while you take food.
- Do not do strenuous work—physical or mental just after taking food. Take rest for half an hour.
- Remember God before, during and after meals. God is the dwells in all foods and vegetables.
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