Eating Guidelines
55 Tips for Eating Right and
Avoiding Disease
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1. Eat only when hungry.
This is to prevent overeating, emotional eating, and obesity
that leads to loads of health problems.
2. Wash both hands up to the wrists
before eating.
Standard hygiene, to prevent infection.
3. Don't clean the hands with a towel
after washing.
This may convey infection from one person to the other
particularly viral diseases like infective hepatitis or
bacterial infection like typhoid, dysentry and cholera.
4. Eat localized food.
Eat the food that is grown in your area. Locally grown food
contains all the appropriate nutrients for the climate that you
live in. Medicine in the food is also suited for bacteria that
is locally produced. This is also the same for seasonal foods.
Freezing a food that is produced in the winter season to be
eaten in the summer time may result in ingesting medicine at
the wrong time, which is harmful rather than healing.
5. Take a pinch of salt before
eating.
Taking a pinch (just a pinch!) of salt before every meal help
to sterilize the stomach. Salt turns into hydrochloric acid in
the stomach, killing any harmful bacteria. It also helps to
gear up the acid needed to digest the food.
6. Eat with three fingers.
It is scientifically-proven that eating with three fingers,
that is the thumb and first two fingers, cause one to eat bit
by bit and hence help in digesting the food. If you are from a
culture that uses folk and spoon, take bits of pieces, and not
a huge chunk of food at a time.
7. Eat what is in front of you.
If you have to stretch to get the food, stretch out after the
other person has drawn his hand back. This is out of politeness
to other people at the table.
8. Eat slowly.
Take small bites, chew well and don't reach for more until
first swallowing what have been taken.
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