Podder - Perfect health. Body, diet & nutrition

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ISBN 978-93-815883-6-9

Edition: April 2012

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According to Francis Bacon, A healthy body is the greatest chamber of soul; a sick one, its prison. But to maintain a healthy body one must not only follow the rules of moderate health living coupled with a state of moral relaxation exercising ones judgment in meeting the strains and stresses in life but must also understand the disease process, since a proper understanding of not only the health but also of the sickness is essential in maintaining a healthy being.

The present day stress of life produces harmful effects not only on different organs of the body but also on the psyche. There is no denying the fact that both the mind and body are so interlinked that their mutual interaction constitutes equal share in the maintenance of the normal human cycle.

To live a normal healthy life one has to live life and enjoy it. Life cant be a mathematical equation of dos and dont but, put in a judicious manner; the various intricacies of a healthy and diseased body must be well appreciated. If one can understand that the road to healthy living through a life of moderation in ones habit and attitudes towards life, the task becomes much easier.

To make the task easier we present to you Perfect Health, a set of four books.

Book I: Perfect Health: Body, Diet & Nutrition
Book II: Perfect Health: Fitness & Slimming
Book III: Perfect Health: Health Hazards & Cure
Book IV: Perfect Health: Stress & Alternative Therapies

This set of four books is not meant to create awareness about the physical well-being alone. There are many books doing that, already. Instead, all the four books are all about creating awareness that fitness of the mind and emotions is as important as the fitness of body. And unless one works at being fit in every way, one is not likely to find true health.

To many, this would seem an unattainable goal but it is not so. The effort required to work towards an integrated health and fitness regime is hardly any more difficult than trying to balance your social and spiritual life. Where there is a will, there is a way. And so with fitness.

Perfect Health provides a complete step-by-step program of mind body medicine tailored to individual needs. The result is a total plan, tailor-made for each individual, to reestablish the bodys essential balance with nature; to strengthen the mind-body connection; and to use the power of quantum healing to transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging in short, for achieving perfect health.

Chapter 1
Body, Mind & Soul

Chapter 2
Scientific Study of Body

Chapter 3
Parts of Body

Chapter 4
Joints

Chapter 5
Genetics

Chapter 6
Sunshine and our Body

Chapter 7
Food for Health

Chapter 8
The Food

Chapter 9
Food Pyramid

Chapter 10
Nutrition

Chapter 11
Vital Vitamins

Chapter 12
Valuable Minerals

Chapter 13
Fibre

Chapter 14
Water

Chapter 15
Antioxidants Vs. Free Radicals

Chapter 16
Consume in Moderation

Chapter 17
Vegetarian Foods

Chapter 18
Disease Fighting Foods

Chapter 19
Cancer Reducing Foods

Chapter 20
Food Additives

BODY, MIND & SOUL

A body is needed for inner health and growth of the self; shariramadyam khalu dharmasadhanam. We must have control over our senses for real health. He who has little control over his senses can hardly remain healthy. In the Gita Lord Krishna said that the sense organs wish to enjoy every pleasure. Such pleasant things are the real cause of pain. Whatever we see is mortal. A wise man will not prefer those worldly pleasures:

Bhoktram yagyatapasm sarvalokamaheshwaram
Suhridam sarvabhutnm gytw mm
shntimprichchhati.

The Gita 5:29

We aim at remaining healthy and happy; and to excel simultaneously in many fields. We usually claim to be experts, which we, ordinarily are not. The ego in us makes us the expert, and the superiority complex compels us to give advice even to real experts. We are really expert in searching out the weaknesses, and to en-cash it.

But we dont know the fundamental facts about our body, our mind, the functioning of our organs, the system as a whole; and the most important thing The Elements. We attach little importance to them and are never shy of wasting or polluting them. When we pollute or waste the elements, we are destroying ourselves. Our forefathers were great and wise that they saved them.

Our ill health is the result of our inhuman thought and unhealthy food. We care little for our body or mind. We go for junk food and have developed unhealthy habits while the fact is that the purity of self depends on the purity of food,