The greatest challenge of urban life is staying fit and healthy with the hectic life where the entire demand is to travel and reach the workplace on time and achieve all the set goals. The fast food variety of foods, wrong combinations, incorrect timing, improper meal intake, imbalance of nutrition and high calorie intake has become a culture of our life. We fail to realize what we need to eat, how and at what time and hence over a period of time due to this failure in knowledge whatever we eat turns to fat and accumulation in weight gain and obesity becomes an end result of our fast paced life. The secret desire in each of us is that the food we eat should not show up on our body, though we love to indulge in varieties of food but the inner fear of the resultant weight gain prevents the joy of eating those desired food items and weight management becomes only a far fetched dream and the tongue being starved from indulgences.
Starvation is not the approach to weight loss, knowing your constitution, your body clock and the metabolic imbalance is.
Know your BMI
Your weight in kilos is divided by your height in metres and the result is again divided with your height in meters; this will give you your BMI
BMI = KGS
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The normal range for the BMI is set at 20-25 kg/M2 any value significantly below this range is taken to indicate underweight, while values above this range would be considered to indicate varying degree of overweight / obesity.
Less than 20 kg/M2 = underweight
20 – 25 = normal
25 – 30 = OVERWEIGHT
30 – 40 = OBESITY
40 + = SEVERE OBESITY
If you are one of those who would like seek to bring about a change here is you chance to know your prakriti and dosha and the type of food which will benefit you according to your nadi which will be suggested to you on a prior consultation to stay fit and healthy without any fear of gaining weight.
Since each of us differ with our unique combination and physical constitution we can further be divided generally into as pure vata, pure pitta, pure kapha or dual vatta-pitta, dual pitta kapha and dual kapha vatta type and triple vatta-pitta-kapha type. For maintaining our health we have different needs. Even two people with identical weight, height, sex will require different things. One may require cold food and the other may require hot food for remaining healthy. By understanding our own constitution we can make a choice of right food. As one dosha is always predominant in every individual, each person will require substances opposite to the qualities of the predominant dosha for remaining healthy. Vatta people will need food which is warm & oily and Pitta people will need cold food whereas Kapha people will need dry hot and light food. Therefore it is important to know your own constitution for remaining healthy and for taking proper precaution against any particular disease and keep your body disease free.
