Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 167
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170521831
Description
Swami Sivanandaji was a doctor before he embraced the holy order of Sannyasa. Even before he began his medical career, he enthusiastically conducted a medical journal called “Ambrosia” in which he published regularly articles on health and hygiene, diet and healing.
This volume from the pen of the sage doctor is of the greatest value, not only to the members of the medical profession, but to the layman as well who will gain immense knowledge from it, for enjoying good health and long life.
Contents
CHAPTER 1:
Health is above wealth
Diet and health
Nutrition and health
The body machine
Food and body
The mysterious palace of Brahman
Upanishads on food
Digestion, absorption and assimilation
Masticate well
Care of the teeth
Avoid over-eating
Dietetic rules
Give up meat-eating at once
The inner factory
CHAPTER 2:
Constituents of food
CHAPTER 3:
Diet in diseases
Growth and development of children
CHAPTER 4:
Health Menu
CHAPTER 5:
Milk-Kalpa
Moderate diet (Mitahara)
Yogic diet
Diet for immortality
CHAPTER 6:
Invalid food recipes
CHAPTER 7:
Acid and alkali forming foods
Foods deficient in sodium chloride
Foods rich in iron
Diet and health alphabets
Yogic diet
CHAPTER 8:
Thanksgiving to the lord
Salutations to the lord
Inner ruler body-temple
Most perfect food
Currents of vegetarianism
Vegetarianism and the Hindu view of life
Ancient Indian analysis
CHAPTER 9:
Hints on health
Place of diet in ancient India
What to eat and why
Proteins and minerals
Fats and carbohydrates
Vitamins – Their sources and functions
Rare values of common articles of diet
How much to eat
Food habits
APPENDIX:
Landmarks in the growth of children
A wise man
Yogi’s cure
Success tonic
Anti-divorce tonic
Diet and health