Commandments For The General Health

1* Use discretion in following all sayings, for they are aimed to be effective in general only, and not in particular, dont start eating off dogs jut because it was said that dog's ,eat promotes masculinity. ----- SAGE VATSAYANA ( KAMASUTRA )

2* When life is at stake, one can eat even the non-eatables. ----- CHARAK

3* Never eat in excess. ----- MANU

4* Hunger knows neither taste, nor ripeness, nor non-cooked food. ----- CHANAKYA

5* Fasting cures many maladies, and can at times prove to be medication supreme. ----- AXIOM

6* Moderation in food intake is most advisible. ----- CHANAKYA

7* Moderation in food intake enhances health, longeivity, strength and happiness. ---- MAHABHARATA

8* Regular and timely intake of food constitutes the right policy. Irregular intake leads to many diseases and different conditions. ----- CHARAK

9* Calculated intake leads to happiness.
Happy intake promotes resistance to diseases.
Too much or too little intake damages the system. ------ AXIOM

10* Never eat at dawn or dusk.
And a light supper or no supper should succeed a top-heavy lunch. ----- MANU

11* A balanced full belly should contain 50% food, 33% water and air in the residual space. ---- VISHNU PURANA

12* Non-vegtarian food, buffalo's milk, horse riding and sleeping by the side of women are fruitful for general health ----- SARANGADHARA

13* Eat food with the same calculation you take medicine. ----- ARUNIKA UPANISHAD

14* Absolutely digestable food imparts total absorption and satisfaction. Hard to digest food should be taken in half-measure only. ------ ASHTANGA HRIDAYA

15* Eat the produce of the season ------ ASHTANGA HRIDAYA

16* Take up a load that wont prove heavy to you;
Eat down a food that doesn't prove heavy to you. ----- THE RAMAYANA

17* Eat balanced food only. ------ THE RAMAYANA

18* Non-Vegetarian diet is not good for each and every one. An year-old grain of wheat or rice is ideal for cooked intake. ----- CHARAK

19* Salt provides the greatest 'taste' of all. And salt promotes all other tastes. ---- COMMON SAYING

20* The humans cannot get nectar, nor can the gods get cow's milk. cow's milk is nectar indeed. ------- COMMON SAYING

21* No food can be called complete, without having cow's milk or a preparation made out of it. ------- COMMON SAYING

22* Contra-indicated, following intake of food, are hard study, running, Exercise, intercourse and wrestling ------ for a period of 48 minutes afterwards. ------ AATREYA

23* Post-prandial walk promotes longeivity.
Post-prandial running hastens death. ------- YOGA RATNAKARA

24* Green-gram is ideal for convalescense ------- CHARAK

25* For the maintenance of well-being, an onion is as good as one's ow mother indeed.
Garlic is equivalent, in its benefit, to ten mothers.