If only we bear in mind this teaching of the Gita
and avoid hungerless eating, the're would be no
caiise for indigestion.
IMPORTANT RULES OF EATING
1. Eat only when you are hungry*
2. Never eat when you are tired or emotionally
upset; postphone your xneal; till the condition
is changed,
3. If you take a solid meal at night, do not eat
anything in the morning/ but observe the
•no-breakfast plan*
4. If you have to be at work during day/ do nots
.•eat the principal meal before, but after the work is
over/ as else the meal will not be digested,
5- Do not eat when the mouth is dry; you are
f\ot hungry then.
6. Let the food be as dry as possible.
7. Do not eat hastily; chaw every motsel of
food/ before swallowing.
8. Stop eating when you get the ' stomach's
v^to'; you will then feel that you could iake a little
more* If yoy overstep this mark, though there may
l?e no heaviness immediately after the meal/ it will
)je felt after about two hours. Space must always
flge left for £he movements of the stomach/ and also
for drinking some water, when needful,
9. In one meal there should be only one course '
or one dish, If you eat grains/ let there be only one
;kmd of grain. Even in vegetables and fraits it is!
Joetter tp restrict 'oneself to obe kind only ; differa&t
pf th$ro may be •&$#&, ok diffei*mt times*