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"Food glorious food!!!"  If you are new to the principles of Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda (SVA) and you want to "Clean up" your food act. Where do you start?  Lets start by introducing "Dhinachariya" or circadian rhythm.  The power of the sun on our earth and us is deeply understood in SVA.  Without the sun there is no life on this planet.  So eating our biggest most difficult to digest meal at high noon is recommended, when the sun is highest in the sky.  The heavy proteins: chicken turkey duck fish - need to be eaten at noon so that their benefit is assimilated.  Then it follows that we start the morning with a food that increase digestive fire (AGNI) and that is easy to digest.  Highly recommended to start our day with stewed apples or pears with about 6 cloves.  Then follow with a cooked grain once we are hungry.  The morning time is a time when the body is needing to increase movement. A good time for exercise - yoga or a walk or workout....

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...