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    Yogic Diet: All You Need To Know About Food
    Yogic Diet: All You Need To Know About Food
    Yogic Diet: All You Need To Know About Food
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    Yogic Diet: All You Need To Know About Food

    By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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    Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev in this book gives a deep insight on spiritual nutrition explaining foods that affect your mind, body and soul.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
    Release dateSep 18, 2019
    Yogic Diet: All You Need To Know About Food

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    • 5/5
      Namaste. :) I read this in one sitting, probably faster than usual as I have been soaking up dear Sadhguru's teachings in the last couple of months and much of it was familiar. I wouldn't say this is a book; it reads rather as a transcription of Sadhguru addressing a body of people, live. If you read one of his books like 'Inner Engineering' or 'Karma', you'll see what I mean - they are more polished. There is some repetition in this publication, but that's okay. I found this to be a very helpful transmission and guide, and it inspired me especially to use food as fuel as its highest purpose and to be as mindful and respectful towards water and taking in water, as possible.
    • 4/5
      Some stuff make sense, only to know if it works is to test it.
    • 5/5
      Very good book about the food that we eat and the combinations we do, combined with our emotions.
    • 5/5
      Good read for everyone! A very Concise and useful book.
    • 5/5
      Short and precise on what foods to eat and how much to eat. Very helpful and easy to follow!
    • 5/5
      Very good book for your daily diet. I recommend to all to read it once.

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    Yogic Diet - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

    Yourself

    Now that you have eaten food we can talk about food. So why do we eat food?

    To get energy. You eat food because you want to get energy. In normal terms if you eat a full stomach will you become all energy? You become lethargic. On an empty stomach how much energy you will have even that will go away after you eat the food. First one and a half or two hours the food seems to be taking away energy from the body. Slowly energy starts coming back. If you have to digest any food, certain enzymes are necessary for the digestive process to happen. All the enzymes necessary for the digestive process are not present in the body alone, the food that you eat also brings these enzymes.

    When you cook the food generally you're destroying almost 90 percent of these enzymes. So when you eat this food minus the enzymes the body cannot digest it. So it is trying to reconstitute some of the enzymes that have been destroyed in the cooking process. All of it can never be reconstituted.

    If you're eating clean home food, I would say you're digesting about 50 percent of the food. 50 percent is always going waste. One thing is, this is criminal waste of food. You know world's fifty percent of the world's population is still hungry. So every day wasting fifty percent of the food that you eat is a criminal waste of food. Apart from that it's a tremendous burden on the system.

    Now to get this much energy you're feeding a certain raw material. It has to process all that. Hence, it's a stress on the system. If you had put the foods with the necessary enzymes, the digestive process would have been so much faster and the quantum of food that you need would be so much less. Because you're eating food minus the enzymes, the volume of food that you need is so much more.

    If you consume food with the necessary enzymes, that means in uncooked condition you will see you will never feel that lethargic space after eating how much ever you eat.

    Now when we eat food, after all it's fuel for the body. So if you put fuel into any machine, you must put the right kind of fuel that the machine is designed for. If you put some other fuel it may manage to still run but it will not function at its optimal level and also its lifespan could be greatly reduced.

    So what kind of fuel is this machine designed for? You've got a gasoline car and you pump diesel into it, it will still function but never at its optimal level and definitely its span will be considerably curtailed. So what kind of food is this machine designed for?

    If you look at the animal kingdom you can broadly classify animals into two categories: carnivores and herbivores. Carnivore’s animals are those which eat meat and herbivores are those which consume vegetable matter. Between the two of them, if you look at the way their body is constructed between carnivores and herbivores it is distinctly different. Especially if you look at their digestive system you will see there is a stark difference between the herbivores and carnivores.

    When I say digestive system it is not just here in the stomach, digestion starts from your lip and ends with your anal outlet. In so many levels digestive process is happening. This whole pipe from lip to anal outlet which we refer to as alimentary canal, digestion is happening on many different levels starting from your teeth. In all the herbivores there are incisors in the front and well-developed molars at the back. These are cutting teeth and chewing teeth respectively.

    In all the carnivores animals there are incisors in the front and their molars are not so well developed, they are also almost like incisors and they have two pairs of extra teeth - the canine. If you have to tear the meat and eat, you would need this extra pair of teeth. Without this teeth you cannot really tear the meat and eat it. Today you are cutting it into pieces, mincing it, making meatballs out of it and eating it. That's different but in nature if you had to eat you would need this extra pair of teeth.

    Somehow nature decided not to give it to you. If we go a little further, if you notice the jaw movement of animals, you will see in all the herbivores, they have cutting and grinding action and in all the carnivores animals there is only cutting action. If you have not seen a tiger or a lion at least you have seen dogs and cats. You see it has only cutting action and the herbivores always have cutting and grinding.

    Why this design difference between herbivores and carnivores? Have you ever put some raw rice in your mouth and cooked rice in your mouth? If you put it in your mouth and leave it there for a few seconds, what happens? It gets soaked and what happens? You will grind it, you will make dosa (Indian food) out of it.

    But experientially what happens if you put rice in your mouth and leave it there for about twenty to thirty seconds, you will notice it will turn sweet. Why it is turning sweet is because the carbohydrate is getting converted into sugar right here in your mouth. Because in your

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