Eating Balanced Meals Daily - Three Times a Day is the Way to Go Crazy Diets – Detox Foods & Fluids are Dangerous and Harmful

Keeping your body clean fit and healthy just cannot happen overnight. Putting anything and everything, fatty foods, aerated drinks, aginomoto and all sorts of preservatives, etc, into your body 5 or 6 days a week and then thinking you can wash it all out in one or 2 days, is just not logical or fair on your system. Some people also believe in going to a centre where they stay for 10-15 days, following a strict regimen of detox fluids and food and come out having lost five to six kgs of weight. Please note that this too is dangerous and can have many harmful side effects.

Also getting a sauna, massage and heavy workout once in a way can't clean out all the muck. There are even places where they use enema or colon wash saying this will clean you out. It's absolute nonsense! Having a clean healthy body and beautiful complexion involves no short cuts and you cannot buy this with big money. It is simply commitment, dedication and hard work, over a long period of time that really gives you the best results and results that last.

Since the last 26 years I have believed in one principle - You Are What You Eat. I have seen a tremendous change in my own life and have helped 1000's from all over the world to practice and believe in this too and change their lives completely. Starvation diets and mono- food strategies, like fruits only, etc. is harmful to the body because they lower your metabolic rate. Most people who practice fasting twice a week find it very difficult to lose weight later as their body motor slows down. BMR- Basal Metabolic Rate, slows down.

Secondly every time you miss protein in any meal a little muscle tissue is broken down and supplied for the body's needs. This results in hair fall, wrinkled skin and sagging arms and legs. Every meal must be carbohydrate and protein balanced, having some protein like 1 glass milk or half to one cup dhal/ pulse or egg or a little non-veg is a must in every meal. Thirdly when you don't eat balanced meals then you develop vitamin, mineral deficiencies, which lowers you body resistance and you keep falling ill.

Similarly, no carbs and high protein diets also create an imbalance and is harmful to the body as it creates a heavy load on the kidney. It also damages the colon (large intestine) and harms the heart too.

If you want to permanently become healthy here are the rules

1. Never miss a meal- breakfast, lunch and dinner must be eaten every single day.

2. Every meal must be properly balanced with carbohydrate foods (cereal, rotis, rice, etc.) combined with protein foods (milk/curd, dhal/pulse, egg, poultry, fish, etc.) and vegetables and fresh salads to go with them. Fruits are to be eaten as snacks at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

3. Whenever possible choose high fiber foods like whole wheat bread, oats, ragi, unpolished rice, pulses- channa, rajma, etc. fresh fruits like apple, pear, orange, sweet lime, pomegranate and fresh salads.

4. Everybody from birth to death require 2-3 glasses of milk/curds. Without this we can never meet the calcium and protein need of our bodies.

5. Finally we all need to consume 2.5-3 liters of water daily. Avoid carbonated drinks. Remember each 300 ml of cola contain 7 teaspoons sugar and those colours are bad for your teeth and complexion.

Last but not the least you need to walk all 7 days a week for 25-30 minutes, to keep your heart pumping well and have that flush and glow in your cheeks. The new way to glow with health is to rebalance your lifestyle and strike the right equilibrium of healthy eating, plenty of water and regular walking/ workouts on a long-term basis. Look after yourself always and then treat yourself to the goodies once a week and you can say good-bye to crazy diets and detox forever.