Diet and Lifestyle Guidelines
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(xvii) Look after Your Digestive System – According to Ayurveda, mere nutrition without proper digestion is meaningless.
(xviii) Reduce Stress – Though occasionally stress is not bad for health but excessive stress over long periods needs to be kept manageable through regular physical, yogic and deep breathing exercises and other relaxation techniques like meditation.
(xix) Get Quality Sleep – Sleep is prescribed by Nature. Good sleep improves your defence mechanism. Make sure adults get 7-8 hours of good quality sleep to rejuvenate the body in totally dark room. Melatonin, the hormone that stimulates sleep and suppresses abnormal cancer cell development is secreted by the pineal gland in the darkness at night.
(xx) Quit Smoking – Tobacco smoke is a very potent toxin (poison) responsible for lung and other cancers and many other diseases and disorders.
(xxi) Love Yourself – You are the only one of your kind in the world. You must feel good about yourself. Love, adore, cherrish and celebrate your own body. Good health begins with loving yourself.
(xxii) Banish Negative Emotions – Learn to let go of negative emotions such as anger, guilt, anxiety, fear, unforgiveness, hostility, bitterness and insecurity connected with longstanding issues that can’t be resolved.
(xxiii) Bury the Past – Realise your dreams, goals, loves and being. Be the person you always wanted to be with happy memories devoid of resentment and sadness for past events hurting the most.
(xxiv) Live the Present – You can’t change the Past (it has gone and will never come back), but you can ruin a perfect Present by unnecessarily worrying about the Future which is unknowable. So enjoy and savour the Present.
(xxv) Don’t despair and don’t feel Hopeless – A bout of depression can wreak havoc with the immune system. By remaining cheerful you can boost it. Despair and hopelessness raise the risk of heart attacks and cancer, thereby shortening life. Joy and fulfillment keep us healthy and extend life.
(xxvi) Be Positive and Optimistic – Above all, patients and even healthy persons should make every effort to develop a positive, optimistic and cheerful attitude in their thinking and have faith in themselves that they can achieve a healthy body and mind.
SKINCARE
(xxvii) Good health and physical fitness are imperative for radiant skin – In addition to the effects of the ageing process, you have a cocktail of other causative factors for premature ageing of the facial and body skin. These include excessive exposure to sunlight, unhealthy wrong diet, lack of physical exercise, harmful effects of beauty products, dehydration, sedentary lifestyle and inadequate relaxation and sleep.
(xxviii) Avoid Excessive Sun Exposure – The harmful ultraviolet rays (UVA & UVB) which cause wrinkling are strongest between 1000 and 1600 hours. Use an umbrella but avoid sun creams.
