22 Vedic rules of healthy nutrition

These rules are contained in the Manu-samhita.
People in the Vedic civilization know these rules and follow them.

1 Never eat without feeling hungry. This means that if this rule is not met, then the food is not digested and not digested food is poison to the body.
2 Never eat at fatigue, anger, irritation, fear. If any violation of emotions arise Agni and circulation of prana in the stomach and intestines, so the food turns into poison.
3 Before eating, rinse your mouth, eyes, wash your feet with cold water, or better yet take ablution.
4 Eat need to face the east, but not to the north, as If we take food face north, west, then the energy away from us, and decreases in body Ojas.
5 Food should be cooked with love. Food must be prepared for God, and after offering it to God, you can have yourself. Therefore, food should always be prepared in good spirits with a pleasant frame of mind, then the food will be digested easily. If your food is cooked in a bad mood, in a state of irritation, anger, anxiety and depression, such food should not be offered to God, because it is cooked without love for him, this will not bring food and you benefit. Mentality with which food is prepared, it will make a poor quality, and therefore such food is also considered unclean and poisonous.
6 Meals should be taken when working right nostril, so tell us Ayurveda. If the meal is not working right nostril, you must breathe through the right nostril, closing the left while. At work left nostril weakened digestive fire, so the food will be poorly digested. In order to earn the right nostril, you can lie on your left side.
7 Prior to the adoption of food must always pray, because eating is a sacred process. And so, when we read the prayer, we are gearing up psychologically.
8 food offered to God, is the "prasad". You need to put yourself on the plate as much as you can eat. Prasad should be disposed of, so all you need to eat what is on your plate. If you have pets, then the rest can give them prasadam. You can not shift Prasad from tray to tray that family members had finished for someone leftover food. It is necessary to use metal utensils, it is considered pure and does not transmit karma. Each family member should have their own utensils. This rule should be performed routinely, not only when someone in the family is sick.
9 Before there yourself, you need to feed the others. Earlier, in the ancient Vedic times, it was customary for a family of people when Prasad was cooked, the owners go out and offered food to the hungry.
10 To improve digestion is recommended before eating chew ginger with a slice of lemon and a pinch of salt, it will signal the stomach to make digestive gland.
11 You can not talk while eating. Empty talk sprayed energy and reduce air circulation.
Teeth 12 are given to us not for decoration, but for a thorough chewing of food, so the food should be thoroughly chewed and not swallowed quickly. Food should be taken calmly. If you hurry, it would be better for you if you miss a meal, rather than what you eat her.
13 Food should affect all five senses, it must be pleasing to the eye, should entertain our heart should be beautiful to look at and exude a pleasant aroma.
14 Never eat food that exudes an unpleasant odor, or food that is cooked over 3, 5 hours ago. If the food was offered to God, it is possible to store more than 3 and 5 hours.
15 After the meal, you must rinse your mouth, wash the feet in cold water, rinse your eyes with cold water.
16 Immediately after the meal you can not sleep. You can sleep after meals in an hour and a half. Generally, Ayurveda recommends not sleep during the day, because it leads to the weakening of all the processes occurring in the body, and sleep is not conducive to digestion, because slows the flow of prana in the body. Dream a little 15-20 minutes is recommended only for Vata constitution, because it - the restless nature. Also, if you are tired, then you can before eating 15-20 minutes to rest, lying on the left side of the need of the body, it will strengthen the digestive fire and open the right nostril.
17 Do not eat sour fruits at night and do not drink sour milk products.
18 Do not eat before sunrise and after sunset it, especially at dusk.
19 You can not snacking between meals and eat standing.
20 You can not drink water immediately after eating and before eating. If you want to lose weight, drink water before eating, if you want to save weight, then drink water during meals. But do not get carried away in this manner, since it weakens digestion. If the constitution Pete very hungry, it needs to have a drink before eating a few mouthfuls of water in order to reduce appetite.
21 If you need to empty the bowel, this should be done not earlier than 3 hours after a meal.
22 You should never eat until until cleared the intestines.