The Secret of Indra Devi's Longevity

Three main factors affect life expectancy: environment, genetics, and lifestyle. To live longer, you can change 2 of them: move to a more favorable environment for life or change your lifestyle. The problem of longevity Mankind has been concerned for more than a century, but a better solution than a serious attitude to their health has not yet been invented.





The world-famous Eugene Peterson-Labunskaya was fond of yoga at the institute. When she first visited India, she decided that yoga was her way of life. Then Eugene took the pseudonym Indra Devi, which means “heavenly goddess”. All her life Indra Devi adhered to simple rules of nutrition, which helped her to live to 103 years. Indra Devi was convinced that The key to longevity in proper nutrition.





How to live long

1. Give up the ice water. Cold water disrupts the circulation of gastric juice and makes digestion difficult. It is especially harmful to drink fatty foods with cold water.
2. Drink a glass of water in the morning. During sleep, all organs will continue to work and the body requires replenishment of fluid reserves. Chronic fatigue, migraine can signal a lack of fluid in the body. Therefore, during the day you should drink at least 5 glasses of clean water.
3. Drink water slowly, do not force yourself to drink through force. Each body requires a different amount of water.
   
   
   
   
4. Do not drink water while eating unless you want to slow down your metabolism. It is better to drink before eating in 20 minutes and after eating in 40 minutes. Drinking water before eating will save you from overeating.
5. Drink less fruit juice, it is impossible to get drunk. Ideally, juices should be replaced with fresh fruit.
6. Boiled water should be poured several times from one container to another, so it will revive and cheer up the body.
   
   
   
   
7. If you like to make homemade juices from vegetables, add a bundle of green tops. After all, it is in the top that the maximum of vitamins is contained.
8. Minimize the consumption of coffee, tea, alcohol. Give preference to tea on herbs, drink milk. These drinks cleanse the body of toxins, unlike coffee and alcohol. And the teeth will keep white.
   
   
   
   
9. Milk is food, not liquid. Remember this when you want to eat something.
10. Consider the characteristics of your body when buying products in the store. Buy what you can learn and what will give strength and energy, not take it away.
11. Replace white rice, sugar, canned food, sweet pastries with brown sugar, brown rice, whole grain bread, honey.
    
    
    
    
12. Always chew your food carefully. You'd be surprised how little it takes to get enough. And your health will only improve, and indigestion will not threaten you.
13. Hard bread is healthier than fresh. It should be thoroughly chewed and not washed down.
14. Eat fewer foods that contain starch, and do not mix them. Never eat potatoes with bread.
15. Food during stressful situations causes intoxication of the body.
    
    
    
    
16. When eating, avoid unpleasant conversations, and in general, it is better to eat in silence.
17. Never reheat fatty foods several times, especially with used oil. Each time this food becomes even more harmful. It is best to cook fresh food, it is more useful, and its taste is more pleasant.
    
    
    
    

The Japanese occupy a leading position in the world list of centenarians, the average life expectancy of a Japanese is 90 years. And it's not just genetics. To live long, you need not only to eat right, but also to perform at least elementary exercises every day.

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