Hot, cooked food is the most soothing thing for vata doshas
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People with predominant vata dosha benefit the most from heavy, cooked food. Ideally, such food must be eaten when still warm. Dairy products and fried foods pacify the vata. Alternatively, you could steam or stir fry vegetables in clarified butter or olive oil. Juicy fruits, sweet and sour vegetables, rice and wheat are very helpful when it comes to pacifying the vata dosha. Vata types also have the ability to consume and absorb more salt that pitta or kapha doshas. However, they should avoid spicy foods.
Kapha is pacified by sweet foods
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The Kapha Dosha is aggravated by food that tastes sweet, salty and sour. On the other hand, it is pacified by bitter, astringent and pungent foods. Including plenty of spices, chillies, radishes, raw onions and turnips in your diet will cleanse the mouth and stimulate digestion. Similarly, bitter foods like kale, collard greens and eggplant and astringent tasting foods like black-eyed peas, soybeans and green bananas can also help tone your body fluids. On the other hand, you should minimise sweet foods like refined sugar, root vegetables, sour foods like green grapes and citrus fruits and excessive salt.
Sweet foods pacify the Pitta dosha
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The pitta dosha is pacified by foods that are sweet or bitter tasting. On the other hand, they are aggravated by sour and salty tasting food. Hence in order to correct excessive levels of pitta in the body, one must enhance the consumption of sweet, astringent and bitter tasting foods. This includes naturally sweet fruits, grains, root vegetables, dairy products, bitter greens, kale, cumin, turmeric, legumes, cruciferous vegetables and popcorn. However, adding too much-refined sugar to your diet can be harmful as well so it is best to only eat naturally sweet foods.
The most critical meal for elevated vata dosha is
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The vata dosha needs nourishment and energy at the start of each day. Hence, breakfast is the most critical meal. A heavy breakfast can help stabilise the doshas and give you the energy you need to get through the day. Eggs and toast with a side of saut ed vegetables are the perfect breakfast for people with high vata levels. Alternatively, you could eat oatmeal, hot cereals or rice pudding with milk for breakfast. Adding sliced almond, flax seeds, honey and a little ghee can make this meal, even more, vata friendly.
The ideal lunch for Kapha pacifying diet is centred around
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While breakfast is optional when you have elevated kapha dosha, lunch is the main meal of the day. Saut ed or steamed vegetables are the main elements of this lunch. This could be complimented by grains, beans, an egg or a little meat and yeast free bread. Simple lunches could be based on vegetable and lentil soups, quinoa with saut ed cabbage and steamed chickpeas and nondairy taco soup.
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