See, the kind of food that we eat in India is acidic in nature. Eating acidic food causes joint pain, lethargy and diseases in our body. So what should we do about this? We need to make the blood alkaline to balance this.

So I would suggest you to drink alkaline water. Do this and see how it brings a change in your health. All vegetables are alkaline, while fruits are mainly acidic. Spices, rice and even milk is acidic.

So you need to change this. Two to three hours after your meals, you should drink some alkaline water. Do not drink it immediately before or after your food, as the food will not get digested properly.

How can you make water alkaline?

Take one litre of water, put four cut pieces of cucumber and two small pieces of lemon in it. Keep this overnight and the water becomes alkaline.

Drink a glass of this alkaline water two to three hours after your food. Or if you have already drunk some alkaline water, then you should leave a gap of at least one to two hours before you have eat your meals.

Try this and see how the PH of your blood becomes better.

Reduce the quantity of grains and cereals in your meals.

Food should get well digested. We eat so much and then it does not get digested well, because of which you experience cramps and aches in the body.

So once every few days, do not have any grains or cereals in your meals at all, just have raw or boiled vegetables.

We have a tradition in India that on the days of Ekadashi (hindu festival), we fast and do not take any grains. Why is this so? For 15 days we consume all sorts of grains and rice, and that creates acidity in the body. By fasting and avoiding grains completely for one day, that phenomenon (of acidity) gets reversed. Nowadays we have left that tradition, or sometimes we do not get time to follow it properly.

So, every two to three months, for a few days, you should only have boiled vegetables with a little salt, and no grains at all. Do this and see what good change you experience in your health.

We often boil vegetables too much, and drain away all the water in which the vegetables have been boiled. When we do this, all the nutrients are lost and we eat only the remaining portion, which is not very nutritious.

You should not boil vegetables too much, except potatoes.

Eating potatoes raw is no good. Usually in India, people often have tomatoes, potatoes and brinjals (aubergine), and eat less of green vegetables.

We should consume more of green vegetables.

You should also have the OORJA tablets from our Sri Sri Ayurveda. It helps to complete all the deficiencies in our diet. Do you know, drumsticks (Indian vegetable) are so rich in vitamins and minerals. It is said that the leaves of the drumstick tree have nutrition equal to 10 bananas and 20 oranges. Our body should get balanced and nutritious food.

– By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.