Basic Fact About Food And What We Eat

Food - a very important thing for our health. We should know that how and what circumstances we should eat food?
Now a day people avoid oil, clarified butter etc. They afraid of being fatty and many diseases associated with it like heart disease, obesity, blood pressure etc. But our food should contain sufficient amount of clarified butter, oil and other substance. Is this fair to avoid oil and clarified butter from food? Not fair, because oil makes the food tasty and increase appetite and makes the food soft. It increases digestive fire so that food digests easily, increase strength, strength sensitive organ and make your skin glowing. It maintains lubrication between joints and reduces the risk of joint diseases.
The food should always be hot and fresh, so that it become tasty and easily digestible and circulates air. Fresh food is always nutritious where as stale and cold food is heavy, unhealthy and not nutritious.
What we eat is directly related to our senses. Food must be attractive. If the color, taste and feel of food is tasty and attractive it causes more secretion of saliva in mouth which helps in better digestion of food and its ingredients.
Therefore the food should be attractive and also served with style in clean and beautiful utensils.
We must take food in calm and cheerful environment. Anger, jealousy, worry, nervousness, fear and mental conditions spoil the taste of food. It also prevents proper secretion of saliva and mouth and secretion of digestive juice in stomach.