Healthy Eating

One who eats one complete meal a day is a YOGI (yogi is a healthy person)

One who eats two complete meals a day is a BOGI (Bogi is a connoisseur)

One who eats three complete meals a day is ROGI (Rogi is a sick guy)

One who eats four complete meals a day is DROGI (Drogi wastes food)

                                                                  -   From Sidhar songs in Tamil.

What to eat for breakfast lunch and dinner
          Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen and dinner like a beggar is an old English adage. Ayurveda says digestive power is maximum in the day and decreases as night approaches. Undigested food cause many health problems. Undigested food stays in the intestines and becomes feed for bacteria and other parasites. The toxic products these microbes release is absorbed and enters the body and cause many 
diseases.

Why should we eat very less for dinner?
       With change in life style we eat a heavy dinner which is unhealthy. We are used to one bowel cleansing in the morning. Therefore the undigested matter of what we ate for breakfast and lunch, is thrown out as stools next day morning. But what we ate for dinner would not be evacuated next day but would go only after third day bowel emptying. Thus it stays for longer time and cause good food for bad microbes.

        Next reason that dinner is bad for health is that whatever limited amount of food is digested is absorbed as  glucose, amino acids and fatty acids. Most of them are converted to glucose and fatty acids and then stored as  fat. After dinner ,since we do not have any physical activity, all the food that we eat is stored as fat. Therefore  those who prefer to maintain healthy weight should avoid heavy dinner. What to eat for light dinners?