Important symptoms of kidney disease

Important symptoms of kidney disease you shouln’t ignore

Most people are not aware of the fact that kidney diseases can be silent killers. They may not show any symptoms for a long time till the situation becomes critical. It is important to recognize the symptoms of kidney diseases to catch them early. Here is a list of twelve such symptoms you should look out for:

Changes in your urinary function : The first symptom of kidney disease is changes the amount, frequency of your urination. There may be an increase or decrease in amount and/or its frequency, especially at night. It may also look more dark colored. You may feel the urge to urinate but are unable to do so when you get to the restroom.

Difficulty or pain during voiding : Sometimes you have difficulty or feel pressure or pain while voiding. Urinary tract infections may cause symptoms such as pain or burning during urination. When these infections spread to the kidneys they may cause fever and pain in your back.

Blood in the urine : This is a symptom of kidney disease which is a definite cause for concern. There may be other reasons, but it is advisable to visit your doctor in case you notice it.

Swelling : Kidneys remove wastes and extra fluid from the body. When they are unable to do so, this extra fluid will build up causing swelling in your hands, feet, ankles and/or your face.

Extreme fatigue and generalized weakness : Your kidneys produce a hormone called erythropoietin which helps make red blood cells that carry oxygen. In kidney disease lower levels of erythropoietin causes decreased red blood cells in your body resulting in anemia. There is decreased oxygen delivery to cells causing generalized weakness and extreme fatigue.

Dizziness & Inability to concentrate : Anemia associated with kidney disease also depletes your brain of oxygen which may cause dizziness, trouble with concentration, etc.

Feeling cold all the time : If you have kidney disease you may feel cold even when in a warm surrounding due to anemia.
Pyelonephritis (kidney infection) may cause fever with chills.

Skin rashes and itching : Kidney failure causes waste build-up in your blood. This can causes severe itching and skin rashes.

Ammonia breath and metallic taste : Kidney failure increases level of urea in the blood (uraemia). This urea is broken down to ammonia in the saliva causing urine-like bad breath called ammonia breath. It is also usually associated with an unpleasant metallic taste (dysgeusia) in the mouth.

Nausea and vomiting : The build-up of waste products in your blood in kidney disease can also cause nausea and vomiting.

Shortness of breath : Kidney disease causes fluid to build up in the lungs. And also, anemia, a common side-effect of kidney disease, starves your body of oxygen. You may have trouble catching your breath due to these factors.

Pain in the back or sides : Some cases of kidney disease may cause pain. You may feel a severe cramping pain that spreads from the lower back into the groin if there is a kidney stone in the ureter. Pain may also be related to polycystic kidney disease, an inherited kidney disorder, which causes many fluid-filled cysts in the kidneys. Interstitial cystitis, a chronic inflammation of the bladder wall, causes chronic pain and discomfort.

It is important to identify kidney disease early because in most cases the damage in the kidneys can’t be undone. To reduce your chances of getting severe kidney problems, see your doctor when you observe one or more of the above symptoms. If caught early, kidney disease can be treated very effectively.

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Ayurvedic Home remedies for abdominal pain

 July 15, 2014  Dr. Anchal Maheshwari

Ayurvedic Home Remedies for Abdominal pain

1 Take Anardana (Pomegranate seed) and apply some black salt and Kali Mirch (Peppercorns) powder on these Anar seeds. Use these seeds in stomach ache or abdominal pain.

2 Take equal amount of Adrak (Ginger) and Pudina (Mint, Peppermint) extract. Mix some saindhava namak (Rock salt) in it. Use this mixture to end stomach ache or abdominal pain. This is best home remedy to stop vomit also.

3 Chew some roasted Saunf/Sanchal (Fennel seed) in stomach ache or abdominal pain. This is more commonly used Ayurvedic home remedies for stomach ache in homes.

4 In home remedies for stomach ache, Neem/nimb (Azadirachta indica) is also used. Take equal amount of 8-10 gram of each Neem seeds, Tulsi (Holy basil, Ocimum sanctum) leaves, Sonth (Dried ginger) and 10 Kali Mirch (Peppercorns). Prepare the fine powder of all these 4 herbs and lick this powder in stomach ache treatment.

5 Mix Dhania (Coriander) powder with some sugar-candy. Use to stop stomach ache or abdominal pain.

6 Boil the powder of 8-10 Laung / Lavang (Cloves) with water on slow fire. Patient use this warm water solution in stomach ache or abdominal pain treatment.

7 Mix Jaiphal (Nutmeg) oil with sugar to use as Ayurvedic home remedies for stomach ache. It is also good for gastric problems.

8 Mix equal amount 2 spoons of lemon extract and Adrak (Ginger) extract. Also add some loaf sugar in it. Use this mixture in stomach ache or abdominal pain treatment.

These are 8 best quick pain relief Home Remedies For Stomach Ache or abdominal pain
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Health benefits of Meditation

Most people think that meditation is for holy men and spiritual gurus. However, meditation Most people think that meditation is for holy men and spiritual gurus. However, meditation is not just a religious experience. You can say it is spiritual but it mainly a way to improve your health. There are several health benefits of meditation that you may not be aware of. Not only does it improve your emotional and mental health but benefits your physical health. This is obvious because you emotional health has a bearing on your physical fitness

Meditation for stress relief has become one of the health fads these days. Everyone seems to be meditating for weight loss, stress or anxiety disorder. It is important to learn how to meditate properly. Only if you do it the right way will you experience the health benefits of meditation. Otherwise, it will be an exercise in futility. This means you cannot be checking your phone for calls or emails every five minutes while you are meditating. You have to give yourself a break completely. Meditation for sleep and depression is a natural cure that is extremely effective.
Here are a few health benefits of meditation;

Stress Relief

Stress relief is one of the major benefits of meditation. Stress relief usually happens when you meditate and the stress hormones in your body are alleviated. However, you have to meditate in the right way.

Emotional Stability

Apart from lowering your blood pressure, meditation for depression is an effective cure. It helps to curb emotional instability. It also helps to keep suicidal and depressive thoughts away.

Lowers Blood Pressure

The best natural cure for high blood pressure is meditation. It increases your mind’s power control emotional ups and downs. That helps in a big way to keep your blood pressure under control.

Anger Management

Anger is bad for your health. When you are angry your neurons get damaged and you blood pressure rises. But you can manage anger if you meditate regularly.

Helps You Sleep

Stress interferes with our sleep very often these days. We are constantly woken at night and cannot go back to sleep. Meditation is the best natural medicine to treat disturbed sleep.

Improves Immunity

When you meditate on a regular basis, you improve the general immunity of your body. It is basically to do the fact that you breathe more deeply and get more oxygen.

Cures Respiratory Problems

When you meditate, you breathe slowly and steadily. This means you are inhaling more oxygen into your system which is very beneficial for people who have respiratory disorders.

Makes You Fertile

Your chances of being fertile are much more when you are relaxed. Especially for women, chances of conception increase when you meditate and stay stress-free.

Improves Your Memory

Meditation improves your concentration and focus.

Besides, stress is the primary cause of poor memory and short term memory loss. Thus, being relaxed and meditating regularly can help you improve your mental faculties. Show Thumbnail

Heals Muscle Cramps

Stress can also make your muscles cramp up painfully. Meditating can release the stress you are in and this will help you dissolve the muscle cramps.

Rheumatiod Arthritis and Ayruveda

Rheumatoid Arthritis and Ayurveda

The rheumatic diseases—rheumatic fever, rheumatism, and rheumatoid arthritis—are acute and chronic conditions as the body is filled with ‘rheum’, a form of aama (residual impurities deposited in the cells as a result of improper digestion). This rheumatic disease provides a good example of an auto-immune condition (a disordered self-protective mechanism) characterised by inflammation, soreness and stiffness of muscles, and pain in joints and associated structures. This can often be successfully managed by an Ayurvedic approach.
Rheumatoid arthritis is called Aama-vaata in Sanskrit, which means that it occurs when vaata (one of the three constituents that govern physico-chemical and physiological activities of the body) circulates aama in the body. While improper diet is the most important cause, other causes include exhaustion, frequent sex, intense worry, and emotional disturbances.

Improper fat metabolism in the digestive system creates a variety of aama, which shows a special affinity for the bones and joints. Since the membrane lining the colon is intimately connected with the nutrition of cartilage and bone, this aama swiftly reaches its preferred location and deposits itself. The immune system sweeps into attack, and the disease is created. If allowed to continue unchecked, the inflammation becomes chronic and destroys the joint, which causes nearby muscles to shrink. All this happens because of undigested material in the colon.
The pain and stiffness in the muscles and joints increase gradually over weeks or months, accompanied by unusual tiredness and a general feeling of unease. In one out of every ten victims, however, it develops all of a sudden, followed by fever, severe uneasiness, body ache, indigestion, and tastelessness.

Like other autoimmune diseases, chronic rheumatoid arthritis displays two separate, alternating phases: exacerbation and remission. During the exacerbation phase, there is acute inflammation of the joints. During remission, the symptoms disappear because the acute accumulation of the doshas (causative forces in the disease process) in the joints is scattered.

Because there is much aama in arthritic joints, any dosha accumulation in the digestive tract always tends to return to the joints and exacerbate the condition again. Health can return to the joint only if aama is treated. Effective management of arthritis involves immediate elimination of doshas during exacerbation, and gradual elimination of deep aama during remission.

Swan neck deformity in finger joints in Rheumatoid arthritis

Guidelines & Ayurvedic Remedies
The basic philosophy of therapy for rheumatoid arthritis is as follows:

•      Food during an exacerbation should be light, little and liquid. Weak ginger tea taken with lemon and honey, if necessary, is best when your tongue is thickly coated. Then take rice, gruel, and green gram soup. Continue it for at least a week before going back to your normal diet.
• You should try to avoid animal fats, fried foods, dairy products, refrigerated food, white sugar, alcohol, chillies, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and tobacco. Reduce the use of salt.
• Of the oils, castor oil alone can reduce the inflammation and scrape out the aama. A film of castor oil should be applied on the affected joint, and then dry heat should be applied. Wet heat aggravates obstruction and congestion. Take a mixture of equal parts of sand and powdered rock salt, heat it in a pan and pour the heated powder into a cotton or linen bag, and apply it to the joint. It helps dry out congestion in the joint. Sunbath is also good for arthritic joints.
•      The intake of bitter and pungent substances controls vaata and relieves aama. Especially during exacerbation, they stimulate digestion indirectly and help reduce, inflammation. Bitterness is especially needed when there is severe and generalised body ache, loss of appetite, loss of taste, indigestion, and fever. Some commonly available substances which are wholly or partly bitter include: gudochee (Tinospora cordifolia), neem bark, etc. Bitter Ayurvedic compounds like Mahaasudarshan choorna, etc., actively help eliminate the allergic state from the system if used regularly for at least six weeks.
•      Triphala guggulu, a compound preparation, is often useful in such conditions, since triphalas (three myrobalans) in it purify the system and long pepper improves digestion while guggulu, a plant exudate, controls the inflammation in the body. However, Simhanaada guggulu is the best medicine during exacerbation. It contains castor oil as one of the important ingredients.
•      If the digestive tract is coated with aama, it is wise to take 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls of castor oil plus a cup of strong tea made of dry ginger to thoroughly flush the colon and purify the joints.
•      There is one simple recipe for rheumatic complaints. Crush 2-3 cloves of garlic, add it to a glass of diluted milk, then reduce to a quarter and drink it just before bed-time.
•      Eating a balanced anti-allergic diet is appropriate when the exacerbation diminishes. Good Ayurvedic oils for rheumatic conditions are Dhanwantara tailam, Ksheerabalaa tailam, Sahachaaradi tailam and Vishagarbha tailam. All these oils are medicated to purify and lubricate the joints. Intermittent medicated enemas, especially when bowel habits change and the lower tract is full of gas, are important to keep the lining of the colon healthy and clear of aama.

Guggulu is useful during remission to remove old, adherent aama from the dhaatus (basic body structures which perform some specific actions). The best varieties here are Yogaraaja guggulu and Mahaayogaraaja guggulu. Both contain more than two dozen pungent herbs for improving digestion, but Mahaayogaraaja guggulu also has minerals in it for a greater rejuvenating effect.
Simple yoga postures and breathing exercises encourage elimination of aama. As your health improves, supplement the yoga with energetic exercise. A regular exercise programme is especially important for overweight patients since heavy limbs put extra strain on muscles and joints.
Mahaa raasnadi kaada in the dose of 20 ml with equal quantity of lukewarm water twice a day is beneficial. Brihat vaata chintaamani ras in the dose of 125 mg to 250 mg twice or thrice daily is the drug of choice.
Anti-inflammatory Herbs
The ayurvedic-materia-medica lists a wide range of anti-inflammatory drugs that can reduce the pain and swelling in case of different arthritic conditions. The treatises like Charaka samhita, Sushruta samhita, Bhaava prakaasa etc, described these drugs. A good number of scientific inquiries have been made for evaluating the anti-inflammatory activity of these medicinal plants by several researchers.
Ginger: The Department of Environmental Medicine, Odenes University, Denmark (1989) conducted clinical studies on patients suffering from arthritis by giving dry ginger powder and fresh ginger. Better movement of joints was observed in these studies. Recent studies have shown that ginger is capable of preventing the synthesis of prostaglandins which are responsible for inflammation. These observations were published in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1992. For stomach ache, just take the infusion of dry ginger with a tablespoonful of castor oil. Dry ginger with sarjakshaara and a pinch of hing (asafoetida) is also a popular remedy. In chronic rheumatism, take the infusion of dry ginger just before going to bed, and cover your body with blankets to produce copious perspiration. Externally for the relief of arthritic pain, you can apply ginger as paint or plaster made by rubbing the tuber with little water.
Licorice root: Gujral and his associates (1956) have claimed that yashtimadhu or licorice is the best herb for treating inflammatory diseases. After this study, Malhotra and Ahuja investigated and came up with the fact that the efficacy of licorice is due to glycyrrhinitic acid and its steroid nature. Licorice is popular today as it was 3,000 years ago and is freely available even at the grocery shops. Chew a piece of licorice or try its extract, which is even more effective. Its decoction taken after meals, aids digestion and acts as an antidote for peptic ulcers, gastritis and gouty arthritis.
Asafoetida: If 2 gm of hing or asafoetida is dissolved in one tablespoonful of coconut oil and applied as an analgesic balm, it gives immediate relief from inflammatory conditions. In addition, the paste of hing mixed with lime juice can be applied over wasp, bee and scorpion stings.
Turmeric: A volatile oil isolated from the fresh rhizomes of turmeric was found to possess marked anti-inflammatory activity. So, take a pinch of turmeric a day to keep degenerating diseases away. Externally you can even apply a poultice prepared by mixing turmeric powder with a little slaked lime and the white of an egg and give a mild fomentation for relief of pain caused by sprains, myalgia, dislocation of joints, boils, cuts, wounds etc.
Garlic: Recent studies established the anti-arthritic nature of garlic. Daily doses can strengthen your immune system; rid you of pain, and even clear up your arthritic conditions.
Vitex negundo (Nirgundi): Leaves of Nirgundi or Vitex negundo are recommended mainly in inflammatory, glandular and rheumatic swellings by Ayurvedic treatises.
Marking nut (Bhallataka): Application of marking nut to ease joint pains is still prevalent in suburban areas of India. Recently, in some of the experimental studies, its use in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis has shown that the patient’s ESR had been reduced and Dxylose absorption had also improved. However, as this drug is a potent irritant, it should be handled very carefully.
Nyctanthes arbortristis (Paarijaata): The alcoholic extract of the leaves of paarijaata has a significant tranquilizing as well as a dose dependent anti-pyretic effect and histamine antagonistic and purgative activities. In a clinical study, the leafy decoction, 30 ml per day of this drug was administered in 24 cases of sciatica and statistically significant results were observed.
Note
As we all are genetically different with different constitutions and patterns, we respond to treatments in many different ways. Hence Standard Ayurvedic Treatments are always individually formulated. This article is intended only for information. It is not a substitute to the standard medical diagnosis, personalized Ayurvedic treatment or qualified Ayurvedic physician. For specific treatment, always consult with a qualified Ayurvedic physician

कम उम्र में गंजे होने के क्या हैं? अगर झड़ते हैं आपके बाल

कम उम्र में सिर के बाल उडऩा बहुत टेंशन देने वाली प्रॉब्लम है वर्तमान समय ये समस्या युवाओं में बहुत तेजी से बढ़ रही है। इसका मुख्य कारण हेरीडिटी, हार्मोनल कारण या खानपान व दिनचर्या के साथ ही धूप में रहने से व पोषक तत्वों की कमी से भी बाल सफेद होते हैं लेकिन बालों की ठीक से देखभाल न करना भी बाल झडऩे का एक बड़ा कारण है। ये एक ऐसी समस्या है जिससे उम्र बहुत अधिक दिखने लगती है। इसे दूर करने के लिए अधिकतर लोग कई तरह के तैल व शैंपू का उपयोग करते हैं। लेकिन तेल व शैंपू बालों को स्वस्थ नहीं बना सकते हैं। अगर आप समय से पहले गंजे नहीं होना चाहते तो नीचे लिखे उपाय अपनाएं।

- अगर आपको बार-बार कंघी करने की आदत है तो संभल जाइए। अधिकतर लोग अपने बालों को सुलझा और संवरा दिखाने के लिए बालों को बार-बार कंघी करते हैं। लेकिन बहुत कम लोग ये जानते हैं कि बार-बार बालों को कंघी करने से बाल डेमेज होते हैं।कंघी करना भी एक बहुत कम अंतराल पर बालों में कंघी न करें इससे बाल ज्यादा तैलीय हो जाते हैं।

- बार-बार बालों को धोने से भी बालों को नुकसान पहुंचता है। अधिकांश लोग अपने बालों को सुंदर व सेहतमंद दिखाने के लिए बार-बार और ज्यादा केमिकल्स वाले शैम्पू का यूज करते हैं बल्कि बालों को धोने के लिए आंवला व अरीठा पाउडर का यूज सबसे अच्छा रहता है। इसके अलावा अगर बालों को धोने के लिए कम केमिकलस वाले शैम्पू का यूज करें।आपके बाल तैलीय हैं तो कंडीशनर का इस्तेमाल न करें।

- कम से कम सप्ताह में एक दिन शंखपुष्पी से बना हुआ असली और शुद्ध चूर्ण थोड़े से पानी में मिलाकर बालों की जड़ों में लगाएं। इसके अलावा भृंगराज के चूर्ण में थोड़ा तिल मिलाकर खाएं। इस आयुर्वेदिक ट्रिटमेंट से आपके बाल प्राकृतिक रूप से स्वस्थ एवं मजबूत बनेंगे। प्रोटीन से भरपूर चीजों का सेवन अधिक करें इससे हेयर फॉलिकल्स मजबूत होते हैं।

- शैम्पू करने से पहले बालों को ड्राय रखने से भी बाल झडऩे लगते हैं इसीलिए शैम्पू करने से पहले बालों में हल्के गर्म ऑलिव ऑयल या कोकोनट ऑयल से मसाज करें। बालों की जड़ों में तेल की अच्छे से मसाज रात को सोने पहले ही कर लेना चाहिए। इससे न सिर्फ बालों की जड़े मजबूत होती है बल्कि बालों शाइन भी करने लगती है।

- बालों का सीधा संबंध पेट से होता है। यदि पाचन तंत्र और हाजमा ठीक नहीं है तो बालों की जड़ें कमजोर होंगी लगातार कब्ज रहने से हेयर फालिकल्स कमजोर हो जाते है बाल टूटने व झडऩे लगते हैं। इसलिए अपने खान-पान और हाजमे को हमेशा ठीक रखें।चाय, कॉफी, पान-तंबाकू, मिर्च-मसाले आदि नशीले पदार्थों से दूर ही रहें
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अतः एक अच्छे दिन की शुरुआत के लिए अच्छा व स्वास्थ्यवर्धक ब्रेकफास्ट अवश्य लें. यह निःसंदेह आपको आरोग्य प्रदान करने में सहायक सिद्ध होगा.

Author:

Dr. Sheetal Gupta

BAMS, CPC, DPCD

Consultant Ayurveda Physician, Mumbai

Kawasaki disease: Causes, Symptoms and treatment

कावासाकी सिंड्रोम के कारण व  लक्षण

Causes (कारण): कावासाकी सिंड्रोम के पूर्व अक्सर किसी वायरल इन्फेक्शन का इतिहास रोगी में देखने को मिलता है, जो की इस व्याधि के उत्पादक कारकों में से एक हो सकता है. हालांकि यह एकautoimmune disease है जिसके उत्पादक कारणों का अभी पूर्ण रूप से पता नहीं चल सका है.

लक्षण :

• नेत्रशोथ (conjunctivitis)
• जिहवा का सुर्ख लाल हो जाना; इस अवस्था को स्ट्रॉबेरी टंग (strawberry tongue)कहते हैं, जो इस रोग का सबसे महत्वपूर्ण चिहन है.

• होठों पर सूजन, दरारें, कभी कभी रक्तस्राव
• गुह्य भागों पर लालिमा, शोथ
• हाथ व पैर के तलवों पर कालापन व सूजन
• हाथ की चमड़ी निकलना

• बी सी जी के टीका स्थल पर लाल होना व सुन्नपन
• गुदा की चमड़ी निकलना व सूजन

रोग की प्रारंभिक अवस्था में तीव्र ज्वर देखने को मिलता है जो किसी भी ज्वरहर औषधि से कम नहीं होता है परन्तु IgG I.V. route से देने से २ दिनों में ज्वर उतर जाता है.

कावासाकी सिंड्रोम की प्रारंभिक अवस्था में ही यदि पहचान कर तुरंत इलाज़ शुरू कर दिया जाये तो रोगी जल्दी ठीक होता है एवं कोरोनरी anerysm का जोखिम कम हो जाता है. हालांकि चिकित्सा न करने पर यह स्वयं भी ठीक हो सकती है परन्तु ह्रदय व अन्य अंगो को नुक्सान पहुँचने के कारण यह म्रत्यु का कारण बनती है.

आयुर्वेदिक चिकित्सा : लक्षणों के आधर पर यह पितत प्रधान सननिपतज  ज्वर प्रतीत होता है. यहाँ पित्तशामक उपचार जैसे षडंगपानीय का उपयोग किया जा सकता है.

चूंकि यह एक autoimmune disease है अतः गिलोय सत्व या क्वाथ अत्यंत लाभकारी सिद्ध होगा, गिलोय ना केवल पित्त शमन करेगा वरन जवर नाशक प्रभाव होने से जवर को भी कम करेगा, साथ ही Immunomodulator होने से यह प्राकृतिक तौर से शरीर को antibodies बनाने को प्रेरित करेगा.

क्यों जरुरी है ब्रेकफास्ट ?

क्यों जरुरी है नाश्ता?

आजकल के फ़ास्ट फ़ूड के ज़माने में भोजन के गुण एवं प्रकृति की जगह धीरे–धीरे स्वाद ने ले ली है. भागदौड़ की ज़िन्दगी में सुबह जल्दी घर से निकल जाना फिर रस्ते में जो मिले वो खा लेना, ऐसी दिनचर्या आम होती जा रही है. ऐसे में लोग ब्रेकफास्ट यानि सुबह के नाश्ते के महत्व को भूलते जा रहे हैं .

आयुर्वेद के अनुसार शरीर के तीन उपस्तंभ हैं; आहार, निद्रा एवं ब्रहमचर्य. क्रम पर ध्यान दें तो आहार सर्वोपरि माना गया है, आहार को ‘महाभेषज’ अर्थात सबसे बड़ी औषध की संज्ञा दी गयी है. विधिपूर्वक किया गया आहार स्वस्थ शरीर एवं मन का मूल आधार है. विधिपूर्वक आहार सेवन से तात्पर्य है, खाए जा रहे भोजन के गुण, काल, संस्कार, मात्रा आदि का विचार कर भोजन करना. भूख लगने पर खाद्य पदार्थ के गुण धर्म विचारे बिना कुछ भी खा लेना आहार नहीं है. ऐसा किया गया आहार भूख तो मिटा सकता है, पर शरीर का पोषण नहीं कर सकता.

स्वस्थ व्यक्ति के जीवन में इस स्वल्पाहार का अत्यंत महत्व है क्योंकि यह दिन का सर्वप्रथम भोजन है. ब्रेकफास्ट का शाब्दिक अर्थ है फ़ास्ट यानि उपवास को तोडना. एक सामान्य व्यक्ति रात्रि 8 से 9 बजे के बीच भोजन करता है एवं रात्रि 10 से 11 बजे के बीच सो जाता है, प्रातः 7 बजे उठता है. यानि लगभग 11 घंटे शरीर अन्न जल से वंचित रहता है, इस 11 घंटे के निर्जल उपवास को तोड़ने के लिए जो भोजन हम प्रातः करते हैं, उसे ब्रेकफास्ट कहा गया है. सुबह किया गया घर का बना ब्रेकफास्ट न केवल दिन भर हमें तरो-ताज़ा रखता है, बल्कि ये दिन भर अनावश्यक हाई कैलोरी फ़ास्ट फ़ूड से भी बचाता है. सुबह पेट खाली रहने से पाचक रसों का स्राव अच्छा रहता है, अन्न को पचाने के लिए पूरे दिन का समय रहता है. इस समय यदि कुछ भारी पदार्थ भी खाया जाये तो भी वह भली-भांति पच जाता है.

ब्रेकफास्ट के फ़ायदे

एक रिसर्च के अनुसार ब्रेकफास्ट करने से;

• शरीर का मेटाबोलिज्म अच्छे से होता है.
• शरीर में उर्जा का स्तर बरक़रार रहता है.
• इन्सुलिन का स्तर सामान्य रखने में मदद मिलती है, अतः डायबिटीज के रोगियों के लिए अत्यंत जरुरी है.
• मोटापा व शरीर का वजन नियंत्रण रखने में मदद मिलती है.
• शरीर की पाचन क्षमता ठीक रहती है.
• मस्तिष्क को पर्याप्त पोषण व उर्जा मिलती है व शरीर चुस्त-दुरुस्त रहता है.

नाश्ता कैसा हो?

अपनी अपनी पाचन शक्ति व कार्यशैली के अनुसार लोग हल्का या भारी नाश्ता करना पसंद करते हैं. एक सामान्य नाश्ता ऐसा हो जो आपकी उर्जा की ज़रूरत को पूरा करने के साथ साथ शरीर को पोषण भी प्रदान करे, अर्थात लंच या डिनर की तरह ब्रेकफास्ट भी संतुलित होना चाहिए. यह आपकी पूरे दिन की कैलोरी ज़रूरत का 25% होना चाहिए.

• स्प्राउट्स यानि अंकुरित चने, मूंग, सोयाबीन आदि ले सकते हैं.
• दलिया या खिचड़ी
• रोटी सब्ज़ी
• इडली, पोहा, डोसा आदि
• परांठा, दही आदि.
• बच्चों को उनकी पसंद का ध्यान रखते हुए हेल्थी ब्रेकफास्ट दें.

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अतः एक अच्छे दिन की शुरुआत के लिए अच्छा व स्वास्थ्यवर्धक ब्रेकफास्ट अवश्य लें. यह निःसंदेह आपको आरोग्य प्रदान करने में सहायक सिद्ध होगा.

Author:

Dr. Sheetal Gupta

BAMS, CPC, DPCD

Consultant Ayurveda Physician, Mumbai