• Drink about 12 to 18 glasses of water a day. Make fruits (or their fresh juice), sprouts, salads and green vegetables a major part of your diet. Minimize your intake of dairy products and try being a vegetarian, if you can.
     
  • Do aerobics in the morning or in the early evening - the time when your body is most suited for it. Deep breathing exercises every morning and evening for ten minutes will help rejuvenate you.
     
  • Take two minutes breaks from your work, whenever you can during the day, to breathe deeply. To do a deep breathing exercise, inhale, hold and exhale in the ratio of 1:4:2 and keep on increasing your time in the same ratio gradually and with ease according to your capacity.
     
  • Eat the major chunk of your food by 2 p.m. Reduce your intake drastically thereafter. Remember to eat slowly, chewing your food well.

 

Mix your foods wisely 

  • Don't mix cheese and bread, milk and cereal, rice and pulses. Rice, bread and potatoes are starchy foods needing an alkaline digestive environment, whereas meat, dairy products, nuts and legumes are proteins and need an acidic medium for their digestion.
     
  • When you mix one kind of food with another, juices produced by the body neutralize each other and digestion becomes difficult, sapping away a major chunk of your energy. The undigested food results in accumulation of all kinds of harmful toxins and bacteria.