What should be the Diet during Monsoon Season for Healthy Lifestyle?

In monsoon season we must be very careful with our diet due to spread of infections ,healthy diet boosts our immunity so include freshly prepared vegetable soups,sprouts,herbal tea,seasonal fruits,citrus fruits are best in this season because vitamin c helps as antiviral and antibacterial .

-maintain good hygiene,exercise regularly,regular walk in early sun rays ,following them will give you good health in monsoon.

- Avoid street food/junk,preserved foods,ice creams and carbonated beverages.

Namaste Doshi Zarana 

There’s only one diet to be followed all through all the seasons

1 Consume fruits and vegetables that are in season and that which are grown locally. Do add some grains and nuts to your diet too.

2 Eat only when fully hungry

3 Do not overeat

4 Keep an eye on your elimination, see to it that it is always regular and clear.

5 Our first foods are fresh air, sunlight and the radiations from earth .... see to it that you fill your self up by them first thing in the morning. 

6 Nourish yourself with lots of love and positivity too.

Be happy be healthy always 

Swati Dhariwal

Nature Cure Practitioner 

Be happy be healthy always 

Hello Doshi,

Monsoon is the best time of the year, and making delicious food during monsoon is something that everyone craves for. Ideally people go for hot served bhajiyas, mango juice with deeply fried poori etc. However, we can still have the delicious diet we want and even with much more varieties,

1) Crispy Spinach fries ( oil free and oven baked)

2) couscous vegetable pulao

3) mango pulp with protein rich atta ( soy and lentil flour)

4) soy chap (made with organic coconut oil)

5) Sweet Potato chips (oil free, baked)

6) variety of vegetable soups

7) Carrot and Beetroot juice

8) Oven baked mix vegetable ( oil free)

9) Ginger ale (made at home)

10) Include fruits such as apples, guavas,pomegranates and pears

11) Include barley and oats in the diet

12) Include baked bittergourd in your diet. 

There is a lot more that can be added to this list. Additionally, natural plant based diet has vast variety and a new dish can be tried everyday :)

Regards 

1. Include garlic and ginger
2. Pepper
3. Avoid rice and melons
4. Animal products and frozen foods
5. Drink water 
6. Apple, pomegranate, pears, lemon, orange can be taken
7. Avoid all gluten sources
8. Drink home made soups using cinnamon, pepper, ginger and garlic
9. Turmeric powder should be added in cooking

Monsoon seasons could cause many health conditions. Some of the commonest are common flu, mosquito or vector-borne diseases (malaria, chikungunya or dengue) cholera, typhoid, hepatitis etc are some of the commonest health conditions that could affect our human body.

In cities like Delhi, smog-related or pollution-related conditions are also very common. Smog related conditions affect our respiratory tracts and could produce allergic conditions, cough, rhinitis etc.

Diet for Monsoon Season:

1. Eat seasonal fruits: Fruits like litchi, papaya, apples, berries, plums, cherries, pears, pomegranates, jamuns. These seasonal fruits could boost up your immune system. Avoid musk melon and watermelons.
2. Reduce or avoid salt intake: This could retain the water in the body and not only that it could increase the blood pressure which could again increase the risk of other monsoon borne health conditions.
3. Reduce intake of watery foods: Foods like buttermilk, lassi, rice, watermelon, muskmelon etc could increase the risk of your body more prone to catch some infections easily.
4. Avoid spicy or oily diet: these could be difficult for the digestion process and also make our body more prone to infections
5. Include garlic in your diet: Garlic could boost up your immunity when you could include in your diet.
6. Avoid milk products. It is better to avoid all milk products. If you wish and if you are habituated, then you may avoid milk, instead, you may use curd or buttermilk during the day if at all. It is the best policy to avoid milk products during this season.
7. Avoid out dining or eating out: Avoid junk foods, or eating out as this could increase your risk of infections.
8. Drink boiled water. In states like Kerala, people boil water with cumin or jeera seeds.
9. Avoid stale and cold foods...Its is better to avoid them as this could put your body for high risk of infections
10. Avoid Meats: It is best policy to avoid non- vegetarian foods.

In monsoon we should avoid all leafy vegetable like cabbage spinach, and undigestive food unhealthy drink,dairy products, we shoukd all citrus fruits.
we should avoid all oily food in monsoon.
boiled steamed food is always a good option in monsoon.

Doshi, the Idea of a holistic approach to lifestyle means that irrespective of seasonal changes we remain healthy. Body changes its needs as it wants and we must focus on the natural principles of living 

• High raw foods 
• Respecting the circadian rhythm 
• Natural Hydration to ensure body has enough to maintain homeostasis 
• Enough exercise 
• Breathing 
• Mental poise
• Resting well
• Experience natural elements 
• Not medicating the body to suppress any eliminations 
• Not overloading the body with toxic foods the body can’t recognise - things unnatural that we can’t chew and digest in its raw state. Man made fake foods etc 
• Freeing the body off digestion every few days
• Spending time Connecting with oneself the form of meditation 

If we maintain our lifestyle along these lines as much as possible we will be healthy as there won’t be toxins collected to eliminate ( fall sick ). If we deviate, body will accumulate and eliminate. It’s all inour control whether it’s monsoon or summer. 

Be blessed 

Smitha Hemadri ( Educator of natural healing practices)

नमस्ते

आकाश, वायु, अग्नि, जल, पृथ्वी ये पाँच तत्व आपके शरीर में रोज़ खुराक की तरह जाना चाहिए।

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2 वायु तत्व- लंबा गहरा स्वाँस अंदर भरें और रुकें फिर पूरे तरीक़े से स्वाँस को ख़ाली करें रुकें फिर स्वाँस अंदर भरें ये एक चक्र हुआ। ऐसे 10 चक्र एक टाइम पर करना है। ये दिन में चार बार करें।I

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3 अग्नि तत्व- सूरर्य उदय के एक घंटे बाद या सूर्य अस्त के एक घंटे पहले का धूप शरीर को ज़रूर लगाएँ। सर और आँख को किसी सूती कपड़े से ढक कर। जब भी लेंटे अपना दायाँ भाग ऊपर करके लेटें ताकि आपकी सूर्य नाड़ी सक्रिय रहे।

4 जल तत्व- खाना खाने से एक घंटे पहले नाभि के ऊपर गीला सूती कपड़ा लपेट कर रखें और खाना के 2 घंटे बाद भी ऐसा करना है।

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दोपहर में 12 बजे फिर से इसी जूस को लें। इसके एक घंटे बाद खाना खाएँ।शाम को 5 बजे सफ़ेद पेठे (ashguard) 20 ग्राम पीस कर 100 ml पानी मिला। 2घंटे तक कुछ ना लें। रात के सलाद में हरे पत्तेदार सब्ज़ी को डालें। कच्चा पपीता 50 ग्राम कद्दूकस करके डालें। कभी सीताफल ( yellow pumpkin)50 ग्राम ऐसे ही डालें। कभी सफ़ेद पेठा (ashgurad) 30 ग्राम कद्दूकस करके डालें। ऐसे ही ज़ूकीनी 50 ग्राम कद्दूकस करके डालें। इसी प्रकार हरा गोभी, बंद गोभी, गाजर, चुकन्दर भी कद्दूकस करके डालें। हर दिन मुख्य सब्ज़ी किसी एक की मात्रा अधिक बाँकि सब थोड़ा थोड़ा डालें। ताज़ा नारियल पीस कर मिलाएँ। कभी काजू बादाम अखरोट मूँगफली भिगोए हुए पीस कर मिलाएँ। 

लाल, हरा, पीला शिमला मिर्च 1/4 हिस्सा हर एक का मिलाएँ। इसे बिना नमक के खाएँ। नमक सेंधा ही प्रयोग करें। नमक की मात्रा दोपहर के खाने में भी बहुत कम लें। सब्ज़ी पकने बाद उसमें नमक डालें। नमक पका कर या अधिक खाने से शरीर में (fluid)  की कमी हो जाती है। रात का खाना 8 बजे खाएँ।एक नियम हमेशा याद रखें ठोस (solid) खाने को चबा कर तरल (liquid) बना कर खाएँ। तरल (liquid) को मुँह में घूँट घूँट पीएँ। खाना ज़मीन पर बैठ कर खाएँ। खाते वक़्त ना तो बात करें और ना ही TV और mobile को देखें। ठोस (solid) भोजन के तुरंत बाद या बीच बीच में जूस या पानी ना लें। भोजन हो जाने के एक घंटे बाद तरल पदार्थ (liquid) ले सकते हैं।

ऐसा करने से हाज़मा कभी ख़राब नहीं होगा।

जानवरों से उपलब्ध होने वाले भोजन वर्जित हैं।

तेल, मसाला, और गेहूँ से परहेज़ करेंगे तो अच्छा होगा। चीनी के जगह गुड़ का सेवन करें।

हफ़्ते में एक दिन उपवास करें। शाम तक केवल पानी लें, प्यास लगे तो ही पीएँ। शाम 5 बजे नारियल पानी और रात 8 बजे सलाद। 

धन्यवाद।

रूबी, 

प्राकृतिक जीवनशैली प्रशिक्षिका व मार्गदर्शिका (Nature Cure Guide & Educator)