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Breakfast smoothie might be best at dinner

It is often that I am sitting around chatting with friends socially and they tell me the latest best diet they have started.  On one hand they want an Ayurvedic perspective and on the other hand, they are sure that their way is the best way.  Here is an example. Yesterday a friend told me about the most amazing breakfast smoothie that she has every morning. Everyone is into breakfast smoothies.  It seems that if you don’t have a blended mix of superfoods and antioxidants first thing in the morning you are not serious about your health. Let's look at this from the perspective of Dhinacharya or the 24 hours cycle of Vata Pitta and Kapha.  Ayurveda recommends eating out biggest meal at noon when the sun is high in the sky. The sun (Agni or fire) and the moon ( Soma or cooling nurturing energy) have a big influence on our physiology and also the space element (Marut) First thing in the morning after hopefully at least 12 hours without food we are just “breaking the fast”. The dig