8 dietary taboos you should know about practicing yoga

　　Yoga can purify our souls, keep our body and mind comfortable, and can also be beneficial to beauty and slimming. When practicing yoga, in addition to necessary physical training, we also need to pay attention to food maintenance. Today, the editor will bring you some precautions for yoga diet. Let’s take a look!

　　1. Avoid eating big fish and meat, and focus on vegetarian food

　　The yoga movement advocates vegetarianism and believes that human teeth and digestive tracts are designed to handle vegetarian food. All pleasant foods except milk are vegetarian. Digesting vegetarian food takes less time and consumes less energy than animal food, making it easier to digest.

　　2. Selective intake of high-quality protein

　　Since we are pursuing a "vegetarian" diet as much as possible, how do yoga enthusiasts obtain the amino acids necessary for body metabolism? Ingesting more beans and milk rich in a variety of essential amino acids can meet the protein needs of yoga enthusiasts and avoid physical decline, low immunity, and muscle loss due to lack of protein.

　　Tofu, milk, cheese, egg etc. are all excellent sources of protein. Everyone should consume at least 1 gram/kg of protein per day. That is, if you weigh 55 kilograms, you should consume 55 grams of protein per day to ensure your body's protein needs. When meat intake is reduced, legumes are the best source of protein.

　　3. Maintain a light diet and maintain a good mood

　　People with overly strong tastes always add excessive amounts of seasonings during the cooking process, such as chili, salt, MSG, soy sauce, etc. Excessive consumption of these seasonings is not good for the body. healthy It is also not conducive to maintaining a good mood. This is what yoga considers "denatured food", which mainly refers to food that is too spicy, bitter, sour, salty and sweet.

　　Eating too much denatured food will cause people trouble and disease , making people become irritable and restless, and even produce negative emotions such as hatred and depression, and lose calmness and peace. Keeping a light diet is more conducive to maintaining a good mood.

　　4. Reasonable intake of carbohydrates to maintain sufficient physical energy

　　a lot of female Are you taking part in yoga to lose the annoying fat? exercise Some people think that when practicing yoga, you should eat less or even skip staple food. This view is very wrong. Cereals, beans, dried fruits, fresh fruits and vegetables, bread, milk, honey, etc. are all pleasant foods, which can keep the body and mind in a peaceful and pure state, and can provide the body with the nutrients and energy it needs.

　　Some people always treat carbohydrates like drugs. However, without this nutrient in their daily diet, the body's vitality and abundant energy will disappear, because it is one of the body's most important energy substances.

　　5. Eat more vegetables and fruits to eliminate metabolic toxins

　　We should consume 100-200 grams of fruits and 400-500 grams of vegetables every day. Fresh vegetables and fruits can provide the body with sufficient amounts of vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. Among them, dietary fiber is the "intestinal scavenger", which can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and help expel toxins and waste accumulated in the intestines. At the same time, drinking more water will also help the body eliminate toxins and eliminate dirt from internal organs. Foods that have deteriorated, fermented, or been left for too long will often produce a large amount of toxins during metabolism or increase the burden on the body, so be sure to stay away from them.

　　6. Eat nuts wisely to avoid nutritional deficiencies.

　　Nut foods are rejected by many weight-controlling women, mainly because they contain high calories. However, the rich nutrients in nut foods are very beneficial to yoga enthusiasts.

　　Due to controlling or rejecting the intake of animal foods, vegetarians often have insufficient intake of protein and fat-soluble vitamins. In addition to eating more high-quality protein foods such as beans and milk to supplement protein, an appropriate increase in nut foods can make up for the lack of vegetarian food. For example, the protein content in nuts such as pine nuts, hazelnuts, and peanuts reaches 20 grams/100 grams. Eating 100 grams of peanuts per day can achieve the recommended daily intake of vitamin E and meet the body's demand for vitamin E.

　　7. Stay away from fried and barbecued foods

　　Fried and barbecued foods often contain high amounts of fat, which can make people obese and cause depression and laziness. They are called inert foods. High-fat diet is one of the important factors that harms the body and is also the culprit of cardiovascular disease. These high-temperature fried foods also contain many carcinogens, which will destroy the vitamins in the food, denature the protein, and lose nutritional value.

　　8. stay away coffee , strong tea, chocolate, carbonated drinks

　　Carbonated drinks such as coffee, strong tea, chocolate, and cola are denatured foods, and yoga practitioners should also eat less or no food. Although proper drinking of coffee and strong tea drinks can keep a clear mind and quick thinking, excessive drinking will cause the loss of calcium and affect the absorption of iron. Chocolate and carbonated drinks are only foods that please the taste buds and have no benefit to the body, so their consumption should be limited.

　　When practicing yoga, everyone must pay attention to dietary supplements, so that the body can keep up with the steps of practice. Therefore, after daily practice, you may wish to refer to some of the editor's suggestions for dietary intake!