| A healthy life is important to lead a good life. Our | | | | dinner can also be incorporated. The key driver is |
| health is like a wall pre-requisite to draw a picture. | | | | to scrupulously follow the routine timing of intake. |
| We are the architect of our own health. Either we | | | | This is a good recipe for a healthy life. |
| prevent being unhealthy or cure the damage | | | | Our stomach is the origin for all our ailments. Even |
| already done. Physical fitness is very vital. Fitness | | | | the main reason for bad breath originates from |
| is a relative term. A sprinter should have a | | | | the stomach only. If we do not take care of our |
| different degree of fitness as compared to a | | | | stomach and brush our teeth with costliest tooth |
| music teacher. There are many more dimensions | | | | paste and wash our mouth with most expensive |
| one can bring to define fitness. Depending upon | | | | liquid mouth wash, the bad breath will not vanish. |
| the required level of fitness, one should take | | | | We should keep our stomach clean by taking |
| appropriate steps. | | | | appropriate quantity, quality of food in routine |
| More than five billion people live in this world. The | | | | timings. It is easier said than done but not |
| body constitution of each one of us is different. | | | | impossible. You know who is the culprit? It is our |
| The calories needed for every individual is | | | | tongue. If we pay heed to the taste, then we |
| different. There is no one common prescription | | | | would not be able to control the quantum. It does |
| for everyone in this world. Let us take few | | | | not mean that we should not enjoy the taste. In |
| examples. The energy level needed for a | | | | fact the tongue contributes to a great deal for |
| professional designer is different from a taxi | | | | healthy life. When we enjoy food, we feel good. |
| driver. To prescribe a labourer to grab a cereal | | | | Feeling good is a sign of healthy life. If someone |
| bar for breakfast is ridiculous. My dad's friend, a | | | | asks you to take only green vegetables to have |
| chain smoker died at the age of 83! Believe me, I | | | | physical fitness, there is no difference between us |
| observed him leading a healthy life. I am not | | | | and herbivores. But the trick is not to cross the |
| recommending you to smoke to live a healthy life. | | | | limit of moderation. That will be counter |
| I try to drive home the point that you should not | | | | productive. Give importance to the taste but be |
| get carried away by exciting information that is | | | | careful. We should eat to live and not live to eat. |
| available around you and go overboard to apply in | | | | Many of us believe that being slim leads to a |
| your daily life also. That is dangerous to a healthy | | | | healthy life. One of my friends is slim but has |
| life. | | | | cholesterol. It is a wrong notion. The body |
| While we cannot have five billion suggestions for | | | | structure of each one of us is different. An |
| physical fitness and healthy life, we can identify | | | | elephant should not try to become a horse. |
| common needs for all of us. Whether you are an | | | | Nature has created that way. What is important is |
| Olympic champion or an office clerk; a celebrity or | | | | to prevent becoming over weight or obese or |
| a hair dresser, only three appropriate steps have | | | | under weight. If the damage is done, consult |
| to be taken by you. Look at your eating habit, | | | | specialist to get back on track. Do not perform |
| physical fitness exercise and exercise for the | | | | any physical fitness exercise without the proper |
| mind. You can build further with many bolts-on to | | | | guidance of a physical education expert. |
| achieve laurels in life. | | | | Sometimes you are the expert of knowing your |
| We can use our common sense to lead a healthy | | | | own do-s and don't-s. The first day when I went |
| life. It does not require great knowledge about | | | | to learn Tai Chi, Chinese version of Yoga, the |
| science or medicine or physical exercise. Leave | | | | master told me to rotate my neck clockwise and |
| that to the specialists. We are all aware that food | | | | anticlockwise as a warm up exercise. However I |
| is very important for sustenance. Our body is a | | | | was earlier told by my orthopedic surgeon not to |
| mysterious workshop containing various machines. | | | | rotate my neck to recover from a type of |
| Food is its input. The machine processes the food | | | | spondylities I had. What was good for others did |
| and provides energy to the body to do our daily | | | | not suit me. There will be many such situations |
| life activities. If the input to the machine is more | | | | where we should use our wisdom. Especially we |
| than its capacity to process, obviously the | | | | have to be careful on physical fitness exercise. |
| machine will break down. If the quality of input to | | | | Life is a series of experiences. If our experiences |
| the machine is not conducive to the construction | | | | are good we say the life is good, otherwise we |
| of the machine, again the machine will collapse. | | | | say the life is bad. Mind determines whether an |
| Apart from the quality and quantity of intake, we | | | | experience is good or bad. Healthy life is achieved |
| should pay attention to timing. There is a saying. I | | | | by the combination of healthy body and healthy |
| am sure all of us know this. We should eat | | | | mind. Mind does not exist in our brain. Mind is a |
| breakfast like a prince. In the after noon, we | | | | subtle matter manifests in our astral body |
| should eat lunch like a king. In the night, we should | | | | between our soul and physical body. The food we |
| eat meal like a beggar. The digesting power during | | | | eat is converted into energy by the blood and the |
| the night is very poor. Also there is no physical | | | | finest particles of food reach the subtle mind and |
| activity involved in the night when we sleep. So | | | | then to still subtler intellect. While healthy food |
| allow the stomach t be half filled. Have your dinner | | | | definitely supports for a healthy mind, |
| couple of hours before going to bed. When we | | | | nevertheless exercise to the mind is also very |
| wake up in the morning, if we take a glass of | | | | important to have a healthy life. Yoga is |
| water, it helps for the body to hydrate to | | | | considered to be one of the best forms of giving |
| prepare for the day's job. How we cannot start | | | | exercise to the body and mind. A branch of Yoga |
| our car with 4th gear, the same way we should | | | | has physical fitness exercise also. Meditation is |
| consider our body. After 10 hrs of empty | | | | another form of giving healthy exercise to the |
| stomach when we break the fast, we should | | | | mind. These have to be practiced with the help of |
| start with simple and easily digestible food. | | | | specialists. This is the body-mind-intellect complex. |
| Basically we should start with first gear and move | | | | A simple but effective understanding and |
| on. In my view, to have physical fitness, 3 times | | | | application of the above will go a long way to |
| of intake - morning, afternoon and night is | | | | attain a healthy life. |
| sufficient. Perhaps refreshment between lunch and | | | | |