How Food affect us : As per Bhagwat Geeta

               

Satvik Food is Tasty food not garbage 

                                           

We the human have been made to believe that say about 200 gm of food that we eat during a day doesn't affect us much, hence we should always rely on supplement and our celebrities endorse these products too such as, a 1o mg of Revital can do wonder for you and you should eat anything and everything and after that you can have gelusil or digene, food affects everything we do, right from our thinking process, to our physical health and our agility, our body can give output only if it has right input. Shri Krishna has beautifully explained in geeta about the same.

Rajsic Food 

Food that is too sour, too much bitter ( it includes  whisky, neem leaves, and anything i.e. is bitter as they are only good as a medicine, not as a food) , too much salty, too much spicy and overcooked i.e. cooked at a very high temperature and hence looks char, too dry i.e. without any juice( this even include eating a bread/chapati alone without applying ghee or butter to them and without juice such as salt or sugar) are dear to the ones who are under the influence of Rajsic Guna, such food causes sorrow, chaos and disease in ones life. Chapter 17 Verse 9

I have given example here of eating chapati and bread alone, why I gave this eg: is that I want you people to realise that our body is brilliant piece of machine better than any Honda Robot, but still everything has a limit, when we feed a loaf of bread which is not having any butter or ghee applied over it our digestive system will not be able to burn the food hence we will not be feeling energetic as no energy will be liberated.

The salt should also be present in the food as our body absorb the nutrients when it is in the form of combination of salt and sugar, this is the reason that ORS solution are given to patients to make them feel energetic quickly.

Tamsic Food

Food that is half cooked, without any taste, which have a foul smell, stale food and left over of others ( i.e. having saliva of other being) and which have spoiled (due to some reason such as contaminated with cockroaches or any other insect or bacteria) are the food which are prefered by the person who is under tamsic influence. Chapter 17 verse 10 Bhagwad Geeta

Satvik Food

Food that increases a person's age, intellect, strength, immunity, and brings cheerfulness and provide a stable heart which ultimately provides a stable mind should have following characteristics: it should be juicy i.e it should have five taste i.e. Sweet, Salty , bitter,pungent i.e. chili, Sour i.e. something like imli, it should be lubricious i.e. it should have animal fat like ghee or vegetable oil, it should reside in the body for some time (i.e. fibrous ), and it should be acceptable to the body (i.e. it should not cause nausea, dandruff, hair fall bloating, depression, maniac or make you feel shaky etc) & this type of food are preferred by person who are Satvik (i.e. a True Gentleman). Chapter 17 Verse 8   

Here Juicy also implies that the grain should develop some of it own natural juice b'coz flour such as wheat, sorghum or any other are basically kept in storage for long time, for them to be kept in storage for such a long time it is required to keep them dry, hence they doesn't spoil quickly by the microorganism present in air, to make them acceptable to our body we should inhibit life in the flour by fermenting the flours with the help of curd, salt and milk hence generating a natural juice in them and sprouting the pulses.

Plz Don't cook oil at High Temperatures

Hot Oil

Along with issue of depression I also had some issues with my skin, my skin problem dates back to when I was 13 or 14, lots of dandruff use to generate on my scalp also I had a problem of dry lips since the time I was 8 to 9 years old or may be even before that, I don't even remember  since when I have started issues of dry lips.

It was only after I realised with the help of Bhagwat Geeta that we are eating wrong food and when I started experimenting with foods that I found out that if I am not adding any oil to my food then my dandruff issues are being arrested within 2 to 3 days, but stopping oil was a bad bad idea, it gave me issues with my bowel movement. If I use to add unheated oil then it has odour in it if it's a regular filtered oil, and if I use to add oil along with the  water and cook the lentils under pressure then the oil use to escape from the pressure cooker due to high pressure gradient and temperature which again use to cause issues with my bowel movement.

Later I realised that if I add oil over the lentils after it being cooked and boil it for 4 to 5 minutes then this way the oil use to get rid of its smell and at the same time the quantity of oil don't escape from the lentils as there is no pressure gradient as boiling takes place at atmospheric condition, boiling water temperature can't go beyond 100 deg C at atmospheric pressure so the quality of oil don't degrade and hence giving me the complete nutrition. This helped me to get rid of dry skin.

This was great but this led to sort of monotonous cooking as I was not able to eat any fried food, frying in modern day cookware means cooking at a very high temperature, as the temperature of propane butane gas mixture is around 1800 deg C, though a large quantity of heat is lost by conduction, convection and radiation but still the temp is high enough, also the anodised aluminium vessel used are very thin and have very high heat transfer coefficient.

So I did following changes first I bought a new seat stand which is used to keep vessel above the gas stove then increased the height of the same by almost 2 inches by welding support on it, but even after doing so oil was able to generate dandruff all over my skull, so next step I took was to put a square MS plate of almost 4 mm thickness over the stand and then placed my cooking vessel over it, it may sound like crazy stuff but it did worked finally.

We need oil in our system but not the one which is heated at such a high temperature it only leads to degradation of oil, in my case it was the issue of dandruff but in someone other case it may lead to other serious complication. In Bhagwat Geeta it has been mentioned that cooked food is good for health but overcooked food or say burned food are not ideal for health, but unfortunately we don't learn from history.