New Delhi, December 6: Food is not just a means to fill the stomach but a natural way to provide energy and strength to the body.
Having three meals a day is like nectar for the body and protects against diseases. However, in today’s times, it has become a common belief that eating small amounts frequently is a sign of good health, but this notion is wrong. Ayurveda views food in connection with discipline, practice and strength.
Ayurveda says health is not determined by the quantity of food but by the timing of meals. Food takes time to digest in the body, and if something is eaten again during that period, the digestive fire in the stomach becomes weak. The digestive fire in the stomach determines whether food, after being properly digested, will become digestive juice or will rot.
If the digestive fire is strong, there will be no problem in digesting food. But if the digestive fire is weak, food starts rotting in the stomach itself because stomach enzymes cannot properly break down food and convert it into digestive juice.
This then leads to stomach-related problems like gas formation, bloating and constipation.
Now the question is how does the stomach’s digestive fire become weak. Ayurveda says that the habit of eating small amounts frequently affects digestive power. Besides this, eating without feeling hungry, eating late at night, and taking excessive stress also weaken digestive power.
After every meal, digestive power takes time to calm down, and then it takes both energy and time to restart the digestion process. In such cases, if you eat little by little, new food mixes with old food and only half-digested juice enters the blood because the digestion of the previous food was not yet complete.
This leads to accumulation of toxic substances in the body and gradually body weight starts increasing, hormones become imbalanced, and problems related to acidity, gas, and skin begin to occur.
According to Ayurveda, one should eat only 2 to 3 times a day. One should eat only when hungry, give at least three hours for food to digest, and drink water one hour after eating.
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