Dietary requirements to pay attention to when practicing yoga

Popular yoga poses require practice on an empty stomach. Generally, they require no food for two hours before and two hours after practice. Some require no food for three hours before practice. You cannot eat for the first two hours of practice, and practice yoga for one hour. Under such requirements, practitioners can only practice yoga during the third hour before meals and the third hour after meals. According to people's general eating time for three meals and modern people's work and rest habits, it is difficult for people to find the right time to go to yoga studios and gyms for yoga classes.

Most people are still asleep for the third hour before breakfast. For breakfast at seven o'clock, it is four o'clock in the morning, and for breakfast at eight o'clock, it is five o'clock in the morning. Getting up at this time to practice yoga is impossible for most modern people. It is definitely at work three hours after breakfast. The third hour before and after lunch is of course also working time. In the third hour before dinner, people are usually still at work. In the third hour after dinner, the yoga studio and gym are closed.

In this case, if you want to meet the dietary requirements for practicing yoga and have time to practice in yoga studios and gyms, only people who don't need to work can do it. People who need to work to support their families have to disrupt their normal eating schedules and habits to cooperate, making many yoga practitioners dizzy from hunger. Chaotic, abnormal, irregular diet and regular hunger will inevitably cause damage to the function of the human body's digestive system.

One of the most important reasons for the popularity of yoga is that it is said to be able to lose weight. Yoga poses have no function of losing weight, and few people practice yoga to lose weight successfully. A small number of people who lose weight due to practicing yoga are usually starved and thin due to the dietary requirements of practicing yoga. As a result, many people suffer from impaired digestive system functions and suffer from gastrointestinal diseases.

Now it can be clear: a small number of people practice yoga to lose weight successfully because of hunger and digestive diseases caused by practicing yoga, and has nothing to do with yoga poses.

As mentioned earlier, there is a requirement that you cannot eat and drink for two hours before and after practicing yoga. This is a general requirement. In order to make the weight loss effect better, there is also a requirement that you must not eat for three hours before and after practicing yoga, plus one hour of practicing yoga, so that a total of seven hours before and after without drinking or eating. You must also strictly control the amount of food and vegetarian food. The so-called yoga diet. If you are hungry, you have to do physical work such as yoga. Coupled with controlling your food intake and vegetarian food, your body will soon be ruined. As long as you can persist, it will not be difficult to lose weight with such attacks from the inside and outside. It's just very harmful to health.

So how should we control and grasp the diet while practicing yoga? You can't practice yoga when you are full, and you can't practice it when you are hungry. It's just right to be not hungry or full. As for how long you need to stop eating before practicing yoga, you don't have to draw a rigid line for two or three hours. For the same meal, eating big fish and meat is not comparable to the so-called slimming diet of eating a few slices of vegetable leaves, a hundred and eighty grains of rice, and a small bite of soup. The former takes a long time to digest, but the latter will be gone in a while. As long as you can maintain a state of not being hungry or full while practicing yoga, there is no problem drinking appropriate amount of water, drinks, milk, etc. half an hour before practice. After practice, as long as the body returns to normal, you can eat normally. Half an hour is enough). (Internship Editor: Wang Yu)