The Ayurvedic Diet for You!

According to Ayurveda, there are three body types: Vata, Pitta, Kapha. (These relate to the Western concept of endomorphic, mesamorphic, and metamorphic.) Ayurveda prescribes different diets for different body types.

For instance, Vata represents air, and refers to people with thin structures. If such people eat “Vata” type of food (i.g., food that is light, airy, dry, crunchy, etc.) their body will become imbalanced. Pitta represents fire, and people with athletic, muscular builds should avoid foods that are spicy, hot, sour, citric, and so on. And Kapha represents water. Such people, those who have large body builds and put on weight easily, should avoid foods that are sweet, heavy, cold.

Learning problems are created for Vata people, because they become dehydrated and they become light-headed and fidgety. When Pitta people eat too much Pitta food, they become angry, aggressive, and agitated, and find it hard to concentrate. And Kapha people become lethargic after consuming too much Kapha type of food.

You can get your learning skills in tip top shape by eating the right Ayurvedic diet. How to find out your nature and related food chart? Do a free Vata, Pitta, Kapha test on the Jiva Ayurveda site. After you take the test, you will get a diet that is just right for your body type. When you do so, it’ll keep your body balanced, and will enable you to concentrate for much longer.

Your Big Learning Enemy: Sugar

So you’re doing your best to get all that information into your brain, and you wish there was some magic way to get it all in there. One bit of magic you should start with first is making the refined sugar disappear from your diet. Refined sugar refers to white sugar, as well as any food that has processed sugar added to it. This includes cold/soft drinks, biscuits (cookies), candies, and so on.

To get nourishment throughout your body, your food is converted into glucose and transported through our veins as part of your blood. When you eat refined sugar, it’s like putting rocket fuel into your bloodstream. Yes, it gives you a quick high–you get a sudden amount of energy that makes you feel perky. Just the thing to get you revved up to study, right? Well hardly. You see, when your body gets a super high-dose of sugar like that, it gets a shock–like a bolt of lighting, and tries to protect itself. It then jolts the pancreas to action to control the level of sugar by releasing insulin into the blood stream.

All of this work to bring your body into balance causes a loss of energy. So whatever short term sugar high you had is followed by a crash that will leave you more tired than you were prior to eating that sweet treat.

A better option is to go for fruits (fresh or dried) which are naturally sweet, and which release energy into your system fairly quickly–but not so quickly that they cause a pancreatic reaction. But be careful about fruit juices, because most contain added sugars and sweeteners. My suggestion is that you read the label.

At the same time, I’m not insisting that you cut ALL sugar out of your diet. That might not be so easy for anyone to do. But at least you can start being aware of this, and can reduce or cut down the total amount that you eat. As a result, you will notice that you have much higher levels of sustained energy, enabling you to study for longer periods of time with better concentration and retention.