Health Diet

by Swami Sivananda

Swami Sivanandaji was a doctor before he embraced the holy order of Sannyasa. Even before he began his medical career, he enthusiastically conducted a medical journal called “Ambrosia” in which he published regularly articles on health and hygiene, diet and healing.

This volume from the pen of the sage doctor is of the greatest value, not only to the members of the medical profession, but to the layman as well who will gain immense knowledge from it, for enjoying good health and long life.

Table of Contents:

• Health is above wealth
• Diet and health
• Nutrition and health
• The body machine
• Food and body
• The mysterious palace of Brahman
• Upanishads on food
• Digestion, absorption and assimilation
• Masticate well
• Care of the teeth
• Avoid over-eating
• Dietetic rules
• Give up meat-eating at once
• The inner factory
• Constituents of food
• Diet in diseases
• Growth and development of children
• Health Menu
• Milk-Kalpa
• Moderate diet (Mitahara)
• Yogic diet
• Diet for immortality
• Invalid food recipes
• Acid and alkali forming foods
• Foods deficient in sodium chloride
• Foods rich in iron
• Diet and health alphabets
• Yogic diet
• Thanksgiving to the lord
• Salutations to the lord
• Inner ruler body-temple
• Most perfect food
• Currents of vegetarianism
• Vegetarianism and the Hindu view of life
• Ancient Indian analysis
• Hints on health
• Place of diet in ancient India
• What to eat and why
• Proteins and minerals
• Fats and carbohydrates
• Vitamins – Their sources and functions
• Rare values of common articles of diet
• How much to eat
• Food habits.

About Author:

Sri Swami Sivananda, born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage Appayya Dikshita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri Swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta.

He was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme.