FORMULA FOR PERFECT HEALTH

• Drink eight glasses of water a day.
• Include two vegetables and one fruit in every meal.
• Begin each meal with a raw vegetable salad.
• Make a light snack of assorted sprouts.
• Start the day with a glass of warm water and a dash of lime.
• Use only fresh vegetables.
• Once a week have only fresh fruits until noon, make lunch the first meal of the day.
• Eat only freshly cooked meals not refrigerated left overs.
• Include one green vegetable in every meal.
• Go on a 'Juice fast' for a day.
• Start with vegetable juice and sip fruit for lunch and dinner.
• Cut out all deep-fried foods from your diet.
• Cut down on high sugar produts like soft drinks, icecream, candy and cookies in your diet.
• Never skip a meal, even if you are on a diet, eat fresh fruit or have vegetable juice instead.
• Avoid beverages like soda, coffee, colas and so on.
• Include high fibre foods, plenty of fruits, vegetables and grains in planning your diet.
• Use salt in moderation.
• Wash vegetables thoroughly in clean water before chopping.
• Steam or boil vegetables (rather than frying).
• Retain peels of potato, cucumber, carrot and tomato while cooking.
• Choose to be radiantly healthy. Keep yourself informed about the nutritive value of every food you buy.
• Shop for groceries yourself. Notice the look, feel and smell of fresh fruit and vegetables and enjoy their intrinsic goodness.
• Watch out for eating habits during emotional states, like reaching for a chocolate when you are depressed. Resist the urge and eat fruit instead.
• Eat popcorn (rather than chips) while watching T.V./Movie in a theater.
• Don't read the paper or review bills while eating.
• Make it a point to have dinner with the entire family at the table and not in front of the TV.
• Eat just to the point of the fullness. Don't overeat yourself.
• Stop smoking.
• Restrict alcohol consumption.
• Get a good night's sleep, everynight.
• Enrol today in an exercise / fitness programme.
• Take a brisk and invigorating walk for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Every morning and evening spend 10 minutes for basic stretching exercises.
• Do not use elevators when you can climb the stairs.
• Focus on you breathing. Take a deep breath, then exhale slowly. Repeat a couple of times a day.
• Learn to relax. Spend 20 minutes consciously relaxing each muscle of your body.
• Spend 20 minutes a day in silent meditation, prayer or contemplation.
• Learn the healing power of laughter. Watch a comedy (movie) recall a joke or read a fun book and laugh loudly.
• Balance your lifestyle. Devote equal time each week for work and fun.
• Join kids in a sports activity and rediscover the joys of childhood.
• Do keep in touch with friends, call on phone or visit them in person.
• Enrol in an activity like dancing, swimming or roller skating.
• Forgive someone who you think has done you wrong and cleanse you spirit of revenge.
• Do help someone you don't know too well.
• Spend a quiet half-hour chatting with your family.
• Listen to soothing music for some time each day.
• Read an inspiring book once a week.
• Be at peace with the world.

GET THE BEST OUT OF FRESH FRUITS

You will benefit much if you know how and when to eat fruits. Fruits should be taken on empty stomach - not as dessert after the meal. Otherwise, the fruit mixes with other decahyed food and produces gas and hence one bloats. If you eat fruit on empth stomach, it will play a major role in de-toxifying your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy. What happens when you take fruits along with the other items? Let us say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. As fruit digests faster than bread, the slice of fruit digests quickly and is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but its passage is blocked by the bread which takes longer to digest. In the meantime, the whole meal ferments and turns to acid. Conseqently, when the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil. So, it is better to eat fruits on empty stomach or before the main meals. It is incorrectly presumed that some citrus fruits like orange and lemon are acidic, which enchance acidity if taken on empty stomach. Research, however, shows that all fruits become alkaline in our body. When you need to drink fruit juice- drink only fresh fruit jucie, not the preserved one. Similarly, do not drink juice that has been heated up. Also do not eat cooked or preserved fruits, because you may not get all the nutrients. On the other hand, eating the pulp or whole fruit is far better than drinking the juice, as the fruit fibres are good for health. But, should you drink fruit juice, drink it slowly, sip by sip, because you must let it mix with your saliva before drinking it. A 3-day 'fruit fast' is a very simple and effective way to cleanse and de-toxify you body just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friend tell you how radiant you look! During the 'fruit-fast' you can eat different fruits at different times, although occasionally mixed fruit salad would also be permissible and more tasteful. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the secret of beauty, longevity, health and energy.