What is a Naturopathy Diet?

The Naturopathy Diet has been renowned since the Vedic era for treating ailments and diseases. It has a medicinal role to play due to its nurturing, purifying, and eliminative attributes. The core fundamentals of

Naturopathy

lie in the belief that the diseases are a leading cause of violation of the laws of nature. Due to changing lifestyles in these modern times, our body is adapting to a detrimental way of living. This is resulting in us falling prey to lifestyle diseases such as cancer and metabolic syndrome. To get rid of such diseases and to improve vitality, one should follow the laws of nature in terms of exercising, nourishing diet, calming meditation, etc., and imbibe the yogic way of living to manage lifestyle-related disorders.

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In terms of dietary nourishment, the quality of food should be sattvik in nature while sustaining its natural form. Half of the stomach should be filled with food, one-fourth should be filled with liquid, and the rest one-fourth should be empty for the free flow of air. While eating one should relish their food in a calm and peaceful state of being, ignoring any sort of intensive thinking activity.

Classification of Food –

1- Sattvik Food –

Fresh, wholesome, organic, mildly or slow-cooked foods are providers of calm, soothing, and healing energy that is vital for a balanced state of being. These foods are referred to as Sattvik. They are responsible for nurturing your body with lightness, alertness, and a complete conscious state of being wherein you don’t feel low, irritated, stressed, or depressed.

2- Rajasik Food –

Foods that are too bitter, too sour, too salty, and spicy causing dryness and a sensation of burning in your digestive system fall into this category. Rajasik food basically refers to meals that are overcooked in heavy spices to increase their taste, resulting in the speeding up of metabolism and stimulation of the nervous system. However, they might cater to quick and easy energy needs, but they negatively impact causing an unclear and unbalanced state of being promoting the need for physical activity and sensual pleasure. Such foods are responsible for distress, misery, and diseases of all kinds.

3- Tamasik food –

Those foods which are partly dead and spoiled since they have been kept overnight and have been processed to a great deal. Such foods are responsible for creating a feeling of heaviness and lethargy impacting the energy, vitality, and consciousness of the person.

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Types of diet –

1- Raw Diet –

This consists of foods in their natural form such as raw fruits and vegetables. They are considered ideal for a diet receptive to healing due to their nourishing properties full of vital vitamins and minerals while low in calories and other toxic agents. It consists of fresh and dry fruits, vegetables, nuts, sprouts, and other legumes, etc.

2- Mono Diet –

It means using only one kind of food at a meal and not the same one regularly.

3- Detoxifying Diet –

The nourishing dietary elements with detoxification attributes cater to the cleansing of our system. With its eliminative properties, this type of food activates our eliminative organs such as intestines and kidneys. Food items such as citric juices, lemon water, tender coconut water, etc. fall into this category.

4- Soothing Diet –

Once the body is almost detoxified and purified, the second stage of Naturopathy incorporates a soothing diet which is slightly more filling and does not feel like a fasting diet such as an eliminative one. Food items in this phase include fruits, vegetables, sprouts, vegetable soups, buttermilk, wheatgrass juice, etc.

5- Constructive Diet –

The third phase of Naturopathy treatment is a Constructive Diet where the body is completely detoxified and the patient is free of any diseases and ailments. During this stage, the body has started building new healthy cells and lymphs flowing in the blood. Foods as a part of this diet are responsible for boosting immunity such as wholesome flour, unpolished rice, pulses, sprouts, curd, etc.

Enlisting foods to be avoided and taken –

Foods to be considered –

• All seasonal fresh green vegetables such as Lauki, Torai, Parval, Tinda, Cabbage, Turnip, Beetroot, Carrot, Cucumber, Spinach, Radish, Tomato, Methi, Dhaniya, etc.
• Sweets like Honey and Jaggery.
• Juices like fresh juice of Pineapple, Orange, Carrot, etc.
• Sprouts and Legumes like Moong, Moth, Gram, Methi, Wheat, Alfalfa, Ground Nut, etc.
• Cereals like unpolished rice, Wheat flour with bran, Ragi.
• Dry fruits like Figs, Date, Raisins, and currants.
• All seasonal fruits like Guava, Pear, Apple, Orange, Bananas, Papaya, Kiwi, etc.
• Soups like vegetable soups.
• Hydrating liquids for a nutritional detox such as lemon or coconut water, buttermilk, Mattha, etc.

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Foods to be avoided –

• All garden and farm products with pesticides and disinfectants.
• Tobacco products like Zarda, Khaini, Bidi, Cigarette, Cigar, and Pan Masala.
• Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, and Cold Drinks.
• Excessive usage of salt and other sodium-based products.
• Alcohol and Drugs
• White sugar, all-purpose flour (Maida), and its products like bread, biscuits, sweets, namkeen, puri, and ice cream, etc.
• Egg, meat, fish, fried food, polished rice, condiments, pickles, etc.
• All processed, refined, tinned, preserved, and chemically processed factory food.
• Food stored for longer periods of time and overnight stored food.

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