We all are slowly moving away from quality food and good food habits in today’s fast-paced life. Our fast-food eating habits, pollution, and indiscipline are adding fuel to the fire of our unhealthy lifestyle. We can easily blame our busy schedules and lack of time because we have no work-life balance. But let’s not forget at the end of the day, it’s our life, and our life is very precious for the people around us. It’s not very difficult to take out one hour from our busy lives, and it’s possible if we plan and discipline ourselves.
I don’t understand how we take out time for many things (necessary and unnecessary) but can’t take out time for ourselves and our bodies. Despite our busy schedules, we can take out time for our biological needs, eating being one of them, probably the most important one! Even if we can’t take out that one hour, we can still do a lot by balancing our diet and choosing what we eat.
So let’s talk about our food, what can we eat to keep ourselves healthy and in good shape, all of us would like to look good and be in good condition, right? I want to go back to our old food habits – Ayurvedic food, Holistic cuisine, food from our past and future food! Healthy food can answer our unhealthy lifestyle and unfit body, and such food is available in the market these days.
Holistic cuisine is eating simple food at the right time, in good season, cooked by correct cooking technique, and in the right quantity. You should use only fresh, naturally grown ingredients in holistic cuisine, not processed, canned, or frozen food. It might sound challenging if I ask you all to turn vegetarian for better health, so I recommend reducing meat intake and eating only once or twice a week.
Holistic eating also means eating ‘Sattvic’ food or, in a sattvic way, fresh, juicy, light, nourishing, and tasty. This kind of food gives a lot of required energy to our body. Eat seasonal vegetables, fruits, grains, and lentils, which are light, fresh, and digested quickly once consumed. Food must be cooked with very little oil and can use ghee for cooking because it gets digested much faster than any other vegetable oil. Avoid deep-fried food in your regular meals. Make sure you don’t overcook anything because overcooking destroys all nutrition from the ingredients. Don’t over-spice your food; use minimal spices.
I am sure eating such food every day might become very boring, hence once in a week or in a fortnight you can add a few extra spices to your food and make it little ‘Rajsic’ which means eating sour, salty, bitter, hot and pungent food. In today’s lifestyle, we need to consume such food once in a while because we spend time and struggle for material existence, we all work a lot to earn money to buy comforts and cope up in our society. So, we also need to make our food a little bit Rajsic sometimes but be careful that we don’t eat only Rajsic food, make a good balance between sattvic and Rajsic food, and restrict ‘Tamsic’.
Tamasic is the food that is canned, frozen, ready to eat, old, processed, etc. Meat, fish, and eggs are also tamasic……. But I recommend sometimes keeping them in our diet, and I am not saying that a meat-eater cannot be healthy but restricting meat intake is healthier. If one is interested in remaining at least healthy, energetic then go Sattvic – Yes, Holistic! The food of the future!!
In short, keep healthy and let your energy levels soar !!
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