FIVE TYPES OF FOOD

FIVE TYPES OF FOOD

There are several types of food. However, to  understand them

easily we have divided them into five types.

TYPE-1 FOODS

The first type of food consists of all foods which are natural and

tasty. All uncooked foods such as fruits, coconut, cucumber, carrot, etc,

which are uncooked but at the same  time  are tasty belong to this

group.

These foods will have 100% taste. So they get 100 marks for taste.

These will have 100% pranic energy. So they get another 100 marks for

pranic energy. These will have 100% nutrients. So they get another 100

marks for nutrients. So, totally the first type of food gets 300 marks. All

the foods which can be eaten uncooked and raw but are also tasty

come under this group.

TYPE-2 FOODS

The second type consists of all  uncooked but not-so-tasty foods.

For example, all tasteless fruits and vegetables belong to this group.

This type of foods contains 100% pranic energy. So, they get 100

marks for pranic energy. These contain 100 % nutrients. So they get 100

marks for nutrients. But these do not have taste. So, they get 0 marks

for taste. So, these foods get total 200 marks. So, they are grouped as

second type.

TYPE-3 FOODS

All cooked vegetables, spinach leaves, grains, etc. belong to this

third type.

When we cook a food, the taste in the food reduces by 50%. So,

these foods get 50 marks for taste. Also, when a food is cooked, it loses

50% of its nutrients. So these foods get 50 marks for nutrients. Also

these foods lose 50% of their pranic energy when  cooked. So, these

foods get 50 marks for pranic energy. So totally this type of food gets

150 marks. All cooked dishes such as  Idli,  Dosa, Pongal,  Uthappam,

meals, Chapati, etc. that we normally eat come under this group.

TYPE-4 FOODS

The non-vegetarian  foods come under this fourth category. Nonveg. foods contain 100% nutrients. So, they get 100 marks for nutrients.

There will be no pranic energy in them. So, they get no marks for pranic

energy. There will be no taste in them. So, they get no marks for taste.

So, non-veg. foods get a total of 100 marks. Therefore, it is good to

avoid or reduce non-veg. foods as far as possible.

But, in some countries, desert areas and hot countries, due to the

non-availability of plant foods, there may be a necessity to eat non-veg.

foods. Anatomically, nothing wrong will happen to our body if we eat

non-veg. food. But,  on spiritual grounds, if our mind has developed a

thought that it is a sin to kill a living being, when we eat non-veg. food,

that thought will create disease in our body.

So, when non-veg. eaters eat the non-veg. food with the thought

that eating it is not a sin and eat it without any confusion in their mind,

then the food gets digested properly. If they eat it with the dilemma

“Can I eat it or not? Is  it right or wrong to eat it?” then that thought

creates diseases in the body.

This is not only true for non-veg. foods but it is true for all foods. If

we eat any food with the clear and strong conviction and belief that it is

good for our health, then that food acts as medicine. If we eat it with

the doubtful thought that it might create disease in our body, it actually

creates diseases. Finally, it is advisable to avoid non-vegetarian foods.

TYPE-5 FOODS

All the narcotic drugs belong to this group. These are actually not

foods. We eat some narcotics and intoxicants as if they are food items.

But those items are not foods. All intoxicants such as tea, coffee, Beedi,

cigarette, liquor, Beeda, Ganja, areca nut, etc. are not at all foods.

How to know the difference between intoxicants and food items?

All those items by eating which thrice daily we can remain alive are

food items. If we cannot remain alive just by eating some items thrice

daily, then those items are not food items.

Can a person remain alive just by eating coconut alone? Yes. Then

coconut is a food. Can a person remain alive just by smoking cigarettes?

No. Then cigarette is an intoxicant. A person can live just by eating nonveg. food alone. So, non-veg. items are food. Can a person live just by

smoking Ganja? No. Then, it is an intoxicant.

Food is an item which carries nutrients from outside into our

body.  Intoxicant is an item which  takes away the nutrients already

stored in our body. Therefore, when we use  a narcotic, our body will

get more stamina for some specific period of time. After that, we will

be without stamina. This is because the  narcotic will  spend away the

nutrients already stored in our body and thus make us less potent.

Moreover, narcotics never supply any nutrients to our body.

Therefore, we should never  consume narcotics at all. Many

people say, “I go to the doctor and take treatment for several years. But

my disease has not been cured.” But, these people never reveal

anything about the  narcotics they use. Therefore,  consuming tea,

coffee, etc. is more injurious to our health than eating non-vegetarian

food.  

HOW TO DIGEST THE FOOD WELL?

HOW TO DIGEST THE FOOD WELL?

Now we are going to see how to eat the food so that all the

ingredients in the food can mix in the blood as good quality ingredients.

1. WE SHOULD EAT ONLY WHEN WE ARE HUNGRY

Without anything such as  “Eat this.” “Eat that.” etc, just by

following one small guideline we can get the food digested properly.

This guideline is that we have to eat only when we are hungry. What is

hunger? Hunger is nothing but the signal to us from our body that all

the parts in our body are ready for digesting the food properly and mix

it with the blood.

All the food that we eat without feeling hungry become waste or

poison. One very important secret in our treatment is that we should

eat only when we feel hungry. People say that no disease will come if

you take food as per a time schedule. This is wrong. Whoever eats food

in a timely manner, they all will get diseases. Eating when you are

hungry is totally different from eating timely food.

For example, let us say that you take food at 10.00  AM in the

morning. You did not do any work after that. Let us assume that you did

not give any appreciable work to your body. Now we see that the clock

shows 2.00 PM. What do we think? We think, “It is 2.00 PM. Let us take

lunch.”

But did we think whether we feel hungry? No. If you see the time

and eat lunch at 2.00 PM when even the breakfast that you ate in the

morning is not yet digested and mixed in the blood, you will get

diseases. So, the food in the stomach also will not be digested. The food

now you take also will not be digested. So, the first reason for all the

diseases in the world is eating without feeling hungry.

Let us see another example. You eat your breakfast at 10.00 AM

in the morning. Then you work hard. You feel hungry at 12.00 noon.

What will happen if you wait without taking food saying, “I will not eat

now. I will eat food as per time schedule. I will eat only at 2.00  PM”?

The hydrochloric acid in the stomach will be secreted by 12.00 noon

when you feel hungry. Since this acid does not get any food till 2.00 PM,

it will be diluted.

So, the food which you  eat two hours after you get hunger will

not be digested properly. So, what we have to understand from this is

that, if you eat timely food you will get diseases and if you eat food

when you are hungry you will not  get diseases and the diseases that

have come already will be cured.

Who has invented the law that everyone should eat thrice daily?

Some people may do more physical work. They can eat even five times

a day. Some people will do less physical work, It may be sufficient if

they eat twice a day. So, from now on, please do not see the clock for

eating. We have to keep on doing our work. Only when our body

creates the feeling of hunger in us, we have to think about taking food

and only then we have to eat food.

The great sage Thiruvalluvar says in the immortal Tamil epic

Thirukkural, “The body does not need medicine for any disease. After

the food that we eat is digested, we need to eat food when we feel

hungry again. If we follow this, then our body will not need any

medicine at all for any disease.”

Therefore, one important principle in our treatment is that we

have to eat only after we feel hungry. If you do not follow this principle

and follow all other principles that we are going to explain after this,

then you may not get the best results.

When we eat thrice daily, we eat 90 times in a month. It may not

be possible for all of us to eat after feeling hungry for all these 90 times.

Therefore, to start with, we can practice eating after feeling hungry for

at least 10 times in a month. Then we can increase it  to 20, 30 and so

on.

Some of us may work in a company. We may be required to eat

lunch between 1.00  PM and 2.00  PM and return to work at 2.00 PM.

What to do if we do not feel hungry during that time? In this way, there

may be a necessity to eat food without feeling hungry sometimes.

During such times, we can follow the many techniques that we

are going to explain shortly. By doing so, we can save ourselves from

having our food being converted into waste and poison. Nevertheless,

it is always good to wait for hunger when we are at our home and also

wherever we can. So, please eat your food only after you feel hungry.

2. SALIVA SHOULD MIX WITH THE FOOD

When we eat food, we should mix it with saliva and eat. Only the

food that mixes with the saliva goes to the blood as good food. The

food which does not mix with saliva goes to the blood as bad food. Our

saliva contains a lot of enzymes. These enzymes help very much in

separating the constituents from the food. Only the food that has been

digested by the saliva in the mouth can be digested by the stomach.

When the food that has not been digested by the saliva goes into the

stomach, it becomes bad food and waste matter.

All of us will say, “We do mix saliva with food when we eat.”But

this is not true. Whoever eats food with their lips open when they chew

the food, for these people saliva will not mix with the food. When we

chew the food, the lips should be closed. Only then the saliva will mix

with the  food. What is the difference between keeping the lips open

and keeping them closed when we chew the food?

Imagine the food as a ball, and saliva  as another ball. When we

eat with the lips open, the air goes inside the mouth, stands between

the saliva and  the food and does not allow them to mix. Thus, it

prevents proper digestion in the mouth. Therefore, air is the enemy to

the digestion in the mouth. Therefore, from now on whenever you eat

any food, please open your lips only for sending the food inside the

mouth. Once the food is inside the mouth, keep chewing the food

without separating the lips till you swallow the food.

In countries such as USA, UK, Italy, etc. the prevalence of sugar

disease is very less. This is because the people of these countries have

the habit of chewing the food with their lips closed.

When you see foreigners who come to your town, you will

observe that they chew their food keeping their lips closed. Because

the people in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia,  Singapore, etc. eat keeping

their lips open, the sugar disease is more prevalent in these countries.

Immediately do not wrongly conclude that the people of some

countries are intelligent and the people of some other countries are

foolish. People in some countries consume more medicines for mental

illnesses. Many people in countries having the habit of eating with their

lips closed are affected by mental illnesses and consume medicines for

these diseases.

So in some countries body is not all right but mind is all  right. In

some other countries, mind is not all right but body is all right. So, the

business is running fine for the drug manufacturing companies in all the

countries. Therefore, from now onwards, please chew every mouthful

of food keeping your lips closed.

You may think that it will take more time to eat if you chew with

your lips closed. In fact it will take less time. You can keep a piece of

Chapati in your mouth and chew 40 times keeping your lips open. The

Chapati will not become a paste and it will remain as Chapati only. But,

if you chew four times keeping your lips closed, the  Chapati will

become totally mashed into a paste. Without any need to swallow it, it

will just slide into your throat.

You can eat within a short time by closing the lips instead of

opening the lips while chewing. Saliva will be very happy when we chew

with our lips closed. Because the enemy called  air is not there, saliva

quickly separates all the constituents of the food and digests the food

properly.

There may be a small complication when we eat like this. The chin

will pain for about a week. This is because we start a new habit which

was not there for several decades. But, after a week, there will be no

pain and we can be peaceful throughout our life.

So, the second most important principle in our treatment is that

whatever may be the food that we may eat, after putting the food

inside the mouth, till we swallow the food we should not separate the

lips.

3. WHEN WE EAT, OUR ATTENTION SHOULD BE ON THE FOOD

When we eat, we should concentrate our attention on the food.

While eating, if we keep thinking that we are eating and focus on

eating, the food will be digested well. While eating if we keep our

attention on family, business or any other such matter, the food will

not be digested properly.

We may think, ‘We are giving work to our brain. Digestion is

happening only in the stomach. How can it be affected?” Our brain is

connected to all our body parts and glands, through a nerve called

Vagus. Whatever we think about, this Vagus nerve will make the gland

concerned with that thought to secrete.

For example, what do we do when we want to pass urine? Which

button is to be pressed in our body for passing urine? There is no

button for this. Once we think in our mind that we want to pass urine,

the urine comes out, doesn’t it? So, if our mind thinks, it can open the

doors of the urinary bladder. Similarly when our mind thinks, it can

close those doors.

The secret that we have to understand from this is that our mind,

when it thinks, can operate our body parts. A disease first comes only in

the mind. Then it is the mind which creates the disease in the body

parts. Similarly, if our mind has the thought that we are healthy, only

then the disease in the body parts will be cured.

For example, we may see a dream in our sleep. In the dream we

may see that a snake is chasing us. We run fast in our dream. Suddenly,

the dream stops and we sit up and see. Then our heart will be

palpitating fast. Our body will be sweating a lot. We ran only in our

dream. Then why did we sweat? Why does our heart palpitate fast?

This is because, in our dream when our mind thinks that we are

running, our body  initiates its strength to run. Then, the concerned

glands are activated. What we understand from these two examples is

that whatever our mind thinks about, the concerned glands in our body

secrete.

Therefore, when we eat our food, only if our focus and attention

are on the thought that we are eating, all the glands concerned to

digestion will secrete well. Instead, if we think about family, business,

children, wife etc. while eating food, the digestive glands do not secrete

and we get diseases. Therefore, please concentrate your attention on

the food while eating the food.

Some people went to a wise man and asked, “What is the reason

for all the diseases in the world?” The wise man said, “People do not

eat when they eat.” They did not understand and asked the same

question again. The wise man replied, “All the diseases will be cured if

we eat while eating.” “What is the meaning of this statement? What is

eating while eating? When we eat we have to keep our attention on

eating. Those who focus on eating while eating do not get any

diseases.”

So, while eating if we give respect to the food, thank the God and

the nature for giving the food and say a small prayer that we know and

then eat, the diseases will be cured. Instead, if we give respect only to

the doctor, the diseases will become bigger.

While eating, take the food in your hand and eat it with the

thought that this food is going to go inside our stomach, get digested

and  converted into blood, become food for all the body parts and

function as medicine for all diseases. Then we can have a healthy life.

So, the golden rule is,

“NEVER EAT ANYTHING WITHOUT HUNGER.

WHILE EATING, NEVER THINK OF ANYTHING EXCEPT FOOD.”

4. WE HAVE TO EAT THE FOOD

BY GRINDING IT INTO A PASTE USING OUR TEETH

When we eat, we should grind it well using our teeth and then

eat. Whoever swallows their food as it is without breaking and grinding

the food with their teeth, their stomach will ask them one question,

“Do I have any teeth to grind the food? Or do I have any mixie blades or

grinder stone?” There are no teeth or mixie blades or grinder stone in

the stomach. Then how does the stomach digest the food we eat?

The stomach is like a vessel. Inside it, an acid called Hydrochloric

acid (HCL) is secreted. This acid is what digests the food. This acid is so

powerful that, if we take this acid from our stomach and pour it on an

iron, the iron will melt. If we pour it on our palm, the palm will  get a

hole. This powerful acid which can melt even the iron is what is

generated in our stomach whenever we feel hungry.

You may get a doubt. Will this acid which can melt even the iron

not harm our  stomach? There will be a layer of mucus between the

stomach and this acid. This mucus layer prevents the acid from

touching the  stomach and saves  the stomach from being damaged. If

we do not eat for a long time after feeling hungry, the acid that has

been secreted in the stomach, without having anything to eat, will start

eating away this mucus layer.

So, for those people who do not eat when they are hungry and

starve their stomach regularly, after some time, this acid will keep on

eating the mucus layer and one fine day this iron-melting acid will

touch the  stomach. Once it touches the  stomach,  the stomach will be

damaged and it will get sore. Then there will be acute pain in the

stomach. This is called ulcer.

The doctors world-over say that we have to eat food time to time

without fail according to the time schedule, if we want to avoid getting

ulcer. But, here is the truth. Whoever eats food according to time

schedule by seeing the clock, all of you will get ulcer. If you eat

whenever you feel hungry, ulcer will be cured. There is a lot of

difference  between eating timely food and eating food when we feel

hungry.

If a person is feeling hungry he has to eat food immediately.

Instead, if he wants to take food only by fixed time and waits for two

hours, the acid can damage his  stomach in these two hours. All the

doctors in the world ask you to eat food according to time schedule.

Please do not take food as per time. Eat only when you are hungry.

Therefore, we should chew the food, grind it well using our teeth

and then only swallow it. Generally, we do not give much work to our

teeth at all. We just swallow the food in big morsels.

Let us assume that we take the food 40 times with our hand when

we eat a plate of food. If we eat the food without properly chewing it

during the first four times, the acid that is available in the stomach for

digesting the 40  handfuls of food will be exhausted after digesting 4

handfuls of food. This is because the acid in the stomach has to do the

job which is supposed to have been done by the teeth. So, the first four

mouthfuls of food only become good blood. The next 36 mouthfuls of

food become waste and go out as stool because there is no acid in the

stomach to digest it. The only reason for pot belly and obesity is that

we do not give much work to the teeth.

When there is acid in the stomach, the food we eat gets digested

and it does not get converted into pot belly. The food we eat after the

acid in the stomach gets exhausted does not get digested and it

becomes pot belly. This is the reason for obesity also.

Therefore please give work to your teeth. The more we chew the

food with our teeth, make it a paste and send it into our stomach, the

less will be the work for the acid in the stomach. Then, the stomach will

digest the food with the least amount of acid and keep the balance of

the acid for the foods coming in subsequently.

So, if all the foods that we eat such as Sambar, Rasam, butter

milk,  Kheer,  Beeda, etc. are to be digested, then we have to bite and

chew each and every mouthful of food, make it a paste and then only

swallow it.

Many people go for walking exercise for reducing pot belly and

obesity. After going for a walk for 4 KMs, if a person eats four eggs,

then how will the body get trim? Some people try to reduce their body

weight using new technologies such as vibrator machine, tying it to the

stomach or standing on it.

Why should we eat when we are not hungry and then run on a

vibrator? If we eat only when we feel hungry, then there will be no pot

belly and there will be no obesity. Then we do not need to do these

stunts. So, the easiest way to reduce obesity and pot belly is to give

work to our teeth.

Measure your body weight today and note it down. Eat the food

as we have suggested above. Within one month, your body weight will

come down by several kilograms. You need not go for walking. There is

no need to use any vibrator machine. If you are a person who eats five

Chapattis for every meal, now you can eat seven  Chapattis per meal

and still reduce your weight.

So, it is a wrong notion to think that obesity comes due to eating

more food. It is also wrong to think that body weight can be reduced by

eating less food. By giving more work to our teeth, we can eat more

and still reduce our body weight.

In our treatment, you can eat all the food you like to whatever

extent you wish and still reduce your body weight just by giving lot of

work to your teeth, chewing the food well, making it a paste and then

eating it.

In our treatment, pot belly will reduce first and then body weight

will reduce. Only then the disease will be cured. Therefore, please do

not be afraid if you find that your weight falls when you use our

treatment. To whatever extent your weight falls, it means that that

much waste matter was there in your body. If your weight does not fall

at all when you follow our treatment, you do not have any waste

matter in your body.

When you start our treatment, initially your weight will fall slowly.

Then after some particular day, the weight will remain constant for

several months. Then you can understand that that is the true, healthy

weight for your body. Then, your weight will keep on increasing slowly.

This increase is due to the creation of healthy bones, nerves and

muscles to create a healthy body. When the weight increases in this

way, it will not fall again.

So, once you take a morsel of food in your hand and put it in your

mouth, bite and chew it well for at least ten to fifteen times, make it

into a paste, mix it with saliva and then swallow it. By doing this, you

are helping your stomach. By chewing the food well you are reducing

the work for your stomach and your stomach will be healthy and

happy. When our stomach is happy, the diseases will be cured and we

will be happy.

5. WATER IS THE ENEMY OF DIGESTION IN THE STOMACH

We should not drink water for half an hour before we start eating

our food. We should not drink water in between while eating the food.

We should not drink water after we finish eating the food. And, we

should not drink water for at least half an hour after we finish eating

the food.

Some people drink one glass of water and then start eating their

food. These people will not have their food digested properly. It is

because of the following reason. We have seen that the hydrochloric

acid that is secreted in the stomach is what digests the food. If we drink

water just before eating the food, this acid will be diluted. Once this

acid is diluted, whatever good food that we may eat and however well

we may eat it, it will not be digested properly.

So, after you drink water if someone calls you for eating food, you

should say, “I will not come now. Just now I have drunk water and

diluted the acid. So, I will come for eating the food after about half an

hour.” Every time when we sit for eating food, we have to think and

check whether we drank water during the last half an hour. So, the food

we eat will be digested in an excellent way if we avoid drinking water

for half an hour before we start taking the food.

We should not drink water in between our eating the  food. The

digestion will be spoiled if we do so. Those who bite and chew the food

well, make it a paste, mix it with saliva and then swallow it will not feel

like drinking water while eating the food.

We should not drink water after finishing the eating. Many of us

drink one or two glasses of water immediately after finishing the eating.

This also will spoil the digestion. So, we have to wait for about half an

hour after we finish the eating and then only drink water.

So, half an hour before start of food, half an hour during eating,

assuming that we take about half an hour for eating, and half an hour

after finishing the food means that we should not drink water for one

and a half hour in total. How can we totally avoid drinking water for

one and a half hour? During this period, we may get hiccups, thirst,

throat drying up, tongue drying up, food being hot and spicy, etc.

Why should we drink water when the food is hot, spicy and

pungent? Our tongue tells us, “The food is  hot and spicy.” That is all.

Did it ask us to drink water? No. If the food is  hot and spicy, then we

have to find ways to reduce the  hot  taste and we should not drink

water.

So, when the  food is hot  and pungent, we have to mix some

coconut oil, Nallennai, etc. with the food and reduce the hot and spicy

taste. If some oil goes with the food, even then digestion will be done

well. But, if water goes with the food, it will spoil the digestion.

Therefore, if the food is spicy, find alternative ways to reduce the taste

and avoid drinking water.

What to do if we get hiccups while eating? First of all, let us see

why we get hiccups while eating. A person who focuses his attention on

the food while eating will not get hiccups. A nerve called  Vagus

connects our brain, which is our mind, and the parts of the body.

While eating, if we have only the thought about the food in our

mind, then this nerve will keep all the glands concerned with digestion

working well. Suddenly, if our mind starts thinking about the family,

business or any other person, this nerve will get confused. There will be

dilemma whether the gland concerned with digestion should secrete or

the gland concerned with the emotions we are having should secrete.

Hiccups occur only due to this confusion.

When people get hiccups, they say that someone is thinking about

them at that time. In fact, no one is thinking about you when you have

hiccups.  Contrarily, you are thinking about someone and that is why

you are getting the hiccups. So, as long as you keep thinking about the

food while eating, you will not get hiccups.

What should we do if the tongue is dried up or if we feel thirsty?

During the one and half hours, if our throat dries up or if we feel thirsty

or if we get hiccups, we can drink water. But there is a limit for it. We

should drink less quantity of water so that the water we drink does not

reach our stomach. If our throat  has  dried up, then the water should

just wet the throat and if our tongue is dried up, then the water we

drink should just wet the tongue. That is, the water should be so less in

quantity that it wets just our lips, mouth, tongue, food pipe and gullet.

The water should not reach the stomach.

So, we need to understand that air is the enemy for the digestion

done in the mouth and water is the enemy for the digestion done in the

stomach. 

Therefore, we can just wet our mouth before eating the food

using one fourth glass of water so that it does not reach the stomach.

While eating the food, if it is very essential that we have to drink water

in the middle, then again we can drink one fourth glass of water so that

it does not reach the stomach.

Many of us drink  nearly one glass or one vessel of water

immediately after eating the food. Please do not drink like this. After

finishing the eating, it is sufficient if we drink one fourth to half glass of

water just for gargling the mouth. Then please wait for half an hour.

After that, we can drink liberally two glasses of water or even more and

it will not cause any harm to the digestion.

So, half an hour before starting the food, during the eating and

half an hour after finishing the food, avoid drinking water as far as

possible. If needed, please drink very limited quantity of water.

Brahmins  follow the custom of drinking a little water before and

after  eating the food by bringing together the index finger and the

thumb of the right hand together, keeping the other three fingers

stretched, pouring water in the palm and drinking the water by keeping

the mouth on the wrist. This is called “Jala Pariseshanam”.

Our ancestors did not propagate any  technique saying that

hydrochloric acid is secreted in the stomach and we should not drink

water during eating food. Instead of that, they have taught us some

good habits in the name of customs. So, in case it is needed to drink

water during the food, by drinking water three times in this way, we

can save the acid in our stomach.

Just because we have mentioned one custom of Brahmins, please

do not think that our treatment is related to the Hindu religion. This

treatment is not linked to any religion. Religions and diseases have no

connections. Therefore, there is no connection between treatments

and religions. Let us accept good habits, irrespective of whichever

culture or religion it may be found in.

So, let us understand how water is a hindrance to digestion and

improve the digestion by drinking less water.

Generally, when we go to a doctor, he will give a tablet and ask us

to consume it after taking the food. While eating the food we have to

concentrate on the food. But what do we actually do? While eating the

food, we keep on thinking that we have to consume the tablet after

eating the food and we eat the food  focussing  our attention on the

tablet only. After eating the food, we run to drop the tablet in our

mouth and drink one vessel of water. So, irrespective of whether the

tablet cures our disease or not, the water we drink along with the

tablet spoils the digestion and increases the diseases.

So, avoid taking tablets as far as possible. But sometimes we may

be required to consume tablets. At those times, do not consume the

tablet immediately after finishing the food. If you wait for half an hour,

and then consume the tablet with water, then that water will not spoil

the digestion.

Some people may say, “I have to consume the tablets

immediately after eating the food. I cannot wait for half an hour. I may

forget to consume the tablet. Is there any other way out?” In that case,

you can mix the tablet with the Sambar rice and eat it. Then you may

not need to drink water.

6. WE SHOULD NOT WATCH TELEVISION WHILE EATING

If we watch TV while eating, the food we eat will not be digested

properly. You may ask, “Only the eyes are watching TV. Let the stomach

digest the food.” When we see a thing with our eyes, that scene goes to

our mind and our mind starts thinking about that matter. Then, only

those glands concerned to that matter secrete, and the glands

concerned to digestion do not secrete.

If a person eats his food while watching a drama in the TV with

tears in his eyes, his digestive gland will not  secrete. When tear gland

secretes, digestive gland will not secrete. In our body, only some

specific gland will secrete at a specific time.

So, please do not eat food while watching TV serial etc. The

dramas in TV show only negative emotions such as anger, tension, fear,

cheating, corruption etc. When we watch such stories while eating, only

the glands pertaining to such negative emotions secrete and digestive

glands will not secrete.

When we watch a movie in the TV while eating, we become the

hero or heroine of the movie ourselves. At that time, whatever

emotions are shown in the scenes, only the glands concerned with

those emotions will secrete in our body.

Therefore, do not watch TV serial, movie etc. while eating. Some

people will keep watching TV news while eating. When we see the

news that 50 people were killed in bomb blast, while eating, the food

will not be digested if we are watching gory scenes.

So, while eating, TV projector, home theatre, DVD player, etc.

should not be watched. When we watch them, the ugly, gory and sad

scenes in them, affect our mind and spoil the digestion. We have

already seen earlier that we have to keep our attention only on the

food while eating. TV is a device which distracts our attention. So,

please do not watch TV while eating.

7. WE SHOULD NOT READ ANY BOOK WHILE EATING

Some people keep reading a book while eating. Digestion will not

happen properly for these people. The reason is that, when we read a

book, our eyes, mind, thoughts etc. all will be only on the matter that

we read in the book. At that time, our mind will not order the digestive

glands to secrete.

Some people read so intensely while eating that suddenly they

will see the plate and ask, “Where is the Idli?” after eating it! To that

extent they will be unaware of what they ate, how they ate, whether

they ate with lips closed or whether they drank water while eating. All

the people who read books while eating will get diseases. Therefore,

please do not read any book while eating the food.

8. WE SHOULD NOT TALK WHILE EATING

Many of us keep on talking while eating the food. If we talk and

eat, the food will not get digested and it will create low quality sugar,

low quality fat, etc. What is wrong if we talk while eating? When we

open the mouth for speaking, air enters the mouth. When the food and

saliva are together doing the digesting work, the digestion is spoiled by

the air entering inside. Air is the enemy for  proper digestion in the

mouth. We have already seen that we should chew the food with our

lips closed. If we talk while eating, we cannot follow this guideline.

Moreover, generally what do we talk when we eat? We talk more

about our family problems, business problems, anger, sad, tension, fear

and such matters.

When we think about such unnecessary matters while eating due

to the emotions some chemical changes happen in our body and  the

digestion is affected. Immediately some people may ask,” Can we talk

about good matters while eating?” No.  This is because, our lips open

when we talk and air enters inside. Therefore, please do not talk about

any matter when you eat.

If some guest comes to our house, we give them snacks, tea,

coffee, cool drinks etc. to eat and we chat with them. If the guests are

present in our house for half an hour, is there a rule that they should

keep on munching something and talking to us for the entire half an

hour? What pleasure do we derive from making the guests who come

to our house to eat snacks and keep on talking to us as they eat and

spoiling their health?

Therefore, please do not talk when you eat. Do not eat when you

talk. All the people who talk when they eat will  already  have several

diseases. If not, they will get several diseases very shortly.

Nowadays, whenever two persons talk about any matter for some

time, some snacks will  be kept in between them. They will  keep on

eating it as they talk. Some businessmen call each other to a hotel for

lunch and as they keep eating their lunch, they talk about business

worth several lakhs of rupees. When they talk about business worth

several lakhs of rupees, will their attention be on their food? No. That

food will turn into poison.

So, please do not talk when you eat and do not eat when you talk.

If we have to necessarily talk when we are eating we can chew the food

in our mouth, make it a paste and swallow food inside the mouth.

However, it is very good if we do not talk at all from the time we start

eating till the time we finish the eating.

All right, can we at least listen to someone speaking when we eat?

No. The reason is that, if someone is speaking to us when we eat, our

thoughts will be on the words spoken by him and not on our food. So,

our food will not be digested properly.

Whenever you  go  to any house or any hotel, just watch the

people. All people talk about every matter on earth only when they eat.

So, do not talk when you eat and do not eat when you talk. Only when

we eat without talking, our entire attention will be on our food. Only

when our attention is on our food, all the glands related to the

digestion will secrete. Only then our food will be converted into good

items and mixed with the blood.

9. WE SHOULD NOT TALK ON CELL PHONE WHEN WE EAT

Many of us keep talking over cell phone when we eat. This is a

bad habit which very much spoils our digestion. The reason is that,

whatever may be the matter about which we are talking over the cell

phone, our  entire thought and attention will be on that matter only.

During this time, no gland pertaining to digestion will secrete in our

body. So, whatever food we eat at that time will become waste and

poison. It will never convert into good ingredient in our blood.

All those who talk over cell phone while eating will definitely have

several diseases. They cannot be cured by any medicine or tablets. So,

please do not talk on cell phone when you eat. Switch off your cell

phone or keep it in silent mode when you eat. If you do so, and avoid

talking over cell phone when you eat, the food you eat gets digested

well and becomes a medicine for curing several diseases.

10. WE SHOULD NOT DO ANYTHING

THAT DISTRACTS OUR ATTENTION WHEN WE EAT

When we eat, our attention, thoughts and mind should be solely

on the food. We have to see that it does not get diverted into any other

matter. Activities such as watching TV, reading books, talking to others,

talking over cell phone, listening to someone talking, thinking about

business etc. will divert our attention from the food.

Therefore, we have to not only avoid these activities but we have

to see that our attention is not diverted by any other such activities

also. We should not indulge in any such activity when we eat our food.

11. WHAT TO EAT AND WHAT NOT TO EAT?

All doctors will have a list of good foods and bad foods. Different

doctors will give different advices such as this item should not be eaten

for this disease, that item should not be eaten for that disease, and so

on.

But there is no such thing in our treatment. We can eat all foods

that people normally eat. Some people say that we should not eat

anything that grows below the ground level. So, many of you may be

avoiding such food items. Then after some time, you will be asked not

to eat the food items that grow above the ground level, then what will

you do?

There are only two kinds of food, namely those that grow below

the ground level and those that grow above the ground level. Please do

not listen to anyone who asks you not to eat one of these two types.

Carrot and potato grow below the ground level. What will happen if

you eat them? There is nothing wrong in eating the food items that

grow below the ground level. The question is whether you know how to

eat them.

People say that potato, elephant yam (Karunaikkizhangu in Tamil)

etc, should not be eaten. We can eat them liberally and nothing will

happen to us. The question is not whether it was grown above or below

the ground level. The question is whether we know how to eat it.

When we eat the potato in an improper way, it does not get

chewed properly in the mouth, does not get properly digested and goes

to the stomach. Again it does not get digested properly in the stomach

and goes to the intestine. After crossing several organs, it comes out as

stool. If the potato that we eat goes past the mouth as potato, goes to

the stomach as potato, goes to the intestine as potato and goes out in

the stools as potato, is the potato responsible for this or are we

responsible for this?

Just because we do not know how to eat and digest the food

items that are grown below the ground level, can we put the blame on

those food items? Therefore, if we eat the food items by following the

principles that we explained earlier, all the food items will be digested

properly.

So, from now on, we can eat all the food items that grow below

the ground also without any restriction. Some people’s stools will have

pulse, mustard, etc. What is the meaning of this? If a grain of pulse or

mustard comes in full shape from the mouth to the stools, is it the fault

of the grain? Or is it our fault that we have not eaten it properly? So

please do not find fault with any of the food items.

They say that you should not eat sweet because you will get sugar

disease; so, keep the sweet aside. They say that you should not add salt

because your BP will increase; so, keep the salt aside. They say that if

you add Tamarind in your food, knee pain and joint pain will come; so,

do not eat Tamarind. They say that you should not eat all food items

that grow below the ground; so keep aside those items also. They say

that you will get skin disease if you eat brinjal; so, avoid brinjal.

They say that you will get kidney stone if you eat tomato; so,

avoid tomato. They say that you will get  Kozhuppu Katti if you eat oil

dishes, coconut etc; so we avoid eating oil dishes and coconut. They say

that you should not eat pickle; so, you avoid pickles. They say that if

pungent taste increases, you will get diseases; so,  we avoid hot and

pungent items. Already we ourselves do not add bitter and astringent

tastes in our food. They say that we should not add fruits when we eat

cooked foods; so, we do not eat fruits also.

In this way, they ask you to avoid each and every food by giving

some reason or the other. Then what is left for us to eat? Thus, if we

start avoiding each and every item that the doctors ask us to avoid,

finally we cannot eat anything at all and we have to just starve and die.

Therefore please understand that we can eat all the food items that are

normally eaten by people, without any restriction. There are very few

items which are to be avoided.

As per our treatment, only if sugar patients eat sweets their sugar

disease will be cured. Only if BP patients eat salt to the extent their

tongue wants,  their BP will be cured. But, sugar patients should avoid

eating white sugar. It is because white sugar is poison. None of those

who work in a sugar factory will eat white sugar. It is because a deadly

poison called sulphur is mixed in white sugar.

Therefore, we have to avoid white sugar and we can eat all other

sweets such as  Panankaruppatti, Achuvellam, jaggery,  honey etc.

liberally without any restriction. Similarly, BP patients will have problem

only if they take powder salt, But they can eat rock salts such as crystal

salt, induppu, etc. generously. These will cure BP.

They say that those who have gastric troubles should not eat

potato. The problem is not in the potato. If the potato is not digested

properly, it will create gas problems. But, if we eat potato in the proper

way by which it is to be eaten, it will cure the gas problems. So, those

who have gastric trouble can definitely cure it by eating potato as per

our treatment.

They say that skin disease will come if we eat brinjal. In fact, skin

diseases will be cured only if we eat brinjal. Brinjal contains all the salts

and minerals needed for the skin. If we eat brinjal without getting it

digested in the proper way, when the nutrients in the brinjal are

needed for the skin get improperly digested, mix in the blood, and

reach the skin, skin gets diseases. Therefore, by chewing brinjal well

and eating it properly, we can cure skin diseases just by eating brinjal.

In this way, whatever food they say is to be avoided for whatever

disease, the same food acts as medicine for that disease if we eat it in

the proper way. Whatever food is not digested properly the nutrients in

the food that are supposed to go to some specific body parts in good

form reach those body parts in bad form. This causes diseases in those

body parts.

So, the doctors in the world immediately advise us to totally avoid

that food. If we totally avoid that food, the disease will actually become

bigger and will not reduce. This is because if we totally avoid that food

the nutrients in that food meant to benefit that body part will not at all

be available to that body part. So, whatever food they advise us to

avoid for a disease, we can cure that disease by eating that very same

food in a proper way.

So, in our treatment there is no big list of items which are to be

avoided. We can generously eat all the foods that are normally eaten.

Have you not seen people who eat non–vegetarian food and hotel

food three times daily and are still healthy? At the same time have you

also not seen people who eat only curd rice thrice daily and still get

cancer? Have you not seen those who eat only natural food but still

have their kidney damaged? Just think. What we eat is not important.

How we eat is very important.

Food items vary from country to country. The restriction that

some food is not to be eaten will be valid only in a particular place in a

particular country for some period of time. If we see at a global level,

we can maintain our health by eating any food, if we eat it properly. So,

in our treatment, you can eat any food. But, it is very essential that we

adopt the guidelines for digesting it in theproper way.