瑜伽笔记之六 -- 食物与健康

-- Richard Hittleman's "Yoga 28 day exercise plan" 之摘录

生命之气的自然来源是空气，水，睡眠，食物和阳光。你能选择的只有食物，食物在给你营养的同时会削弱你的元气，因此吃的习惯对你的危害可能要大于对你的好处。瑜伽信奉者认为，你的食物质量高，那么你吃得越少，感觉就越舒服，如果过多食用油腻，对人体有害的东西。或进食太频繁，会伤了胃的元气，导致消耗身体其他部位的生命之气增添衰老症状。
The chief sources of life-force (prana) are: air, water, sleep,food and sunlight. You are free to choose from a multitude of foodproducts. Since foods can sap your vitality as well as nourish you,your eating habits may well be doing you more harm than good!

进餐之后，你应该注意到精力充沛，有活力，而不是身体和精神变得笨重，迟钝，这是一个很重要的启示。几乎所有的疾病都直接或间接归因于不能正常消化和排出的食物不断在体内累积的毒素，酸性物质，从而削弱了人体的防御系统。
After some meals you will observe that you are alive and energizedwhereas others will leave you heavy, dull, lethargic in both bodyand mind. This is important revelation. Almost all illnesses can beattributed directly or indirectly to the toxins, acids and wasteproducts continually formed by inferior foods that cannot beproperly digested and eliminated. The body is capable of copingwith most germs that enter it, providing that this body is in apure, clean, healthy state with ability ot call upon its defenseagents as needed. A physical organism that is low in resistancebecause its defense agents are occupied in other areas, trying tocope with toxins, congestion and deposits, is greatly weakened inits attempt to fight these germs.

选择配制食物的原则应尽可能与其自然状态接近的方式，进食者关心的应该是食物中生命之气的多少而不是量的多少。
All foods should be consumed in a from that is as close to theirnatural state as digestion permits. In their natural state, mostfoods contain life-force. The Yogi believes that the less you eat,the better you will feel, providing your food is of a highquality;Yogi is concerned not with the amount of food he eats butwith the amount of life-force in that food.

自然，清淡，你吃的食物愈简单，愈相似就愈能快的被消化和利用。
The less you eat, the better you will look and feel. Your mealshould always leave you feeling light and energized in body andclear in mind. The more simple and homogeneous your foods, the morequickly and completely they will be digested and utilized.