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The human body is a combination of cells, they combine in various permutations and form different systems responsible for all positive and negative effects which ultimately influence the whole body. A problem that plagues everyone today, irrespective of age is the need to lose weight. And so fad diets, liposuctions, excessive workouts and other alternative body-harming solutions/therapies are resorted to. What one needs to understand, is that obesity isn’t always the by-product of excessive food intake or unhealthy lifestyles, but also emotional congestion. According to Ayurveda, obesity manifests itself in different forms in your body depending on your predominant dosha. And while for some it’s easier to lose for others it gets very tough. A combination of prescribed herbs, asans and change in diets will only attend to the physical body, scratching only the surface rather than eradicating the root cause. Here I detail to you from my book, ‘Sanatan Kriya-Essence of ...

A well balanced and beautiful body is there because the  tridoshas  ( vata ,  pitta ,  kapha ) are in balance and in harmony with the elemental composition of the body. When these doshas go into imbalance physical abnormalities begin to manifest. In  Ayurvedic  terminology fat means excess  kapha . Obesity is imbalance in  kapha  or aggravation of  kapha dosha . The causes can be many. As  kapha  is heavy, cold and sticky in nature it requires a lot of heat to expel the  ama  which collects and gets deposited in the system,which we see as fat. For a  kapha  person sleeping in the day is prohibited, as it aggravates  kapha  in the body, in fact a kapha person should try and wake up at least an hour before sunrise. A diet which is light and nourishing is best for effecting fatloss. It is important to scrape away collected ama from the system first, for that purpose triphala can be taken. He...

One thought that constantly plagues everybody’s mind is to lose weight. Every one wants that lean body, which has wrongly become synonymous with beauty and attraction. In the want to lose weight, people resort to extreme measures. Some of them start excluding things from their diet randomly without being aware of the serious complications and deficiencies that such an action entails and others turn to dieticians and fad diet programmes. A dietician looks at only physical aspect of the body and completely ignores the energy aspect. Unaware of the complex mechanism of the body and various dhatus that comprise it, he/she usually categorises the food into fats, proteins and carbohydrates and formulates a chart where the fat component is excluded from the diet. Majority of such diet control regimes have serious side effects that often translate into chronic ailments. The time-tested science of ayurveda details the seven dhatus that comprise our body and the importance of maintaining a b...