Healthy Eating

This section will contain weekly updates on how to eat a satvic diet as recommended by Pujya Sri Swami Sivananda.

Fruits and Health Part II:

6. Carrots: Carrots beautify the skin. They improve the blood and the appetite. Take it raw. Carrot halwa is a brain tonic.

7. Lemon: Lemon contains salts and a large amount of Vitamin C, which is necessary for general good health. It acts against scurvy. It is an anti-scorbutic. It stops bleeding from the gums. Take the juice of one fruit with 2 table-spoons of honey as the first thing in the morning.

8. Mangoes: Mangoes contain sugar and highly refined turpentine in them. They also contain iron and other useful acids. They are useful in rheumatism, diarrhoea and diabetes.

9. Oranges: Orange juice mixed with fresh grape juice makes a very good tonic. This is very useful in anaemia or poverty of blood, general debility, rickets, etc.

10. Papaya: Papaya contains the active principle of alkaloid papain. The latter digests food rapidly. 

Fruits and Health Part I:

1. Every kind of fruit contains valuable vitamins and minerals - elements essential for health and growth.

2. Beans, tomatoes, potatoes, radish, carrot, ladies-fingers (okra), cucumbers, drum sticks, spinach, green leafy vegetables are all pure, delicious and nutritious foods and can be taken with much advantage.

3. Dried fruits, raisins, dates and figs are valuable foods with a high nutritive content. Nuts are among the most nutritive of all foods.

4. Tomatoes, carrots, lemons, a little ginger, a little coriander leaves, a little fresh ginger and curd form a very good healthy combination. This is a good appetiser.

5. Bananas: Banana or plantain fruits contains A, B, C and D vitamins. This is a very good soothing food. You can live on milk and bananas alone. They are very nutritious. They promote growth, augment vigour and add flesh to the body. The fully ripe fruits act as a laxative. Take one or two fruits at bed time. You will have free movement of the bowels in the morning.

Last Update: 31st July 2001