Food & Drink Questions

There are no hard and fast rules. It all depends on the intensity of thirst. Drink a glass of water whenever you feel thirsty. You can drink sips of water when eating food to help you swallow the food. You can drink a glass of water an hour before and after any meal. On an average you can drink 8-10 glasses of water everyday.

Hello sir,
Please do share your health goals.
For what purpose you want to drink horlicks?
If you want to take horlicks to increase protein intake,
You can take it from natural foods like milk and milk products, dry fruits , pulses and whey protein etc.

Variation in food and nutrition is always recommended. However the juices that contain vitamin c like oranges is daily recommended along with other juices.

No one food can help gain or lose weight. You need to adhere to an overall healthy regiemen to help with efeective weight management.

Dear Lybrate user no you can't drink during or after food if necessary than only. One can drink water after half an hour of lunch or dinner.

Drink water 30 mins before and 30 mins after the meals. Some other points to keep in mind:
Eat fresh, sattvic food of the best quality you can afford.
Do not eat unless you feel hungry.
Do not drink unless you feel thirsty. If you are hungry and you drink instead of eating, the liquid will dissolve the digestive enzymes and reduce your gastric fire.
Sit, don’t stand, to eat.
When eating, eat. That is, don’t read, watch TV, or be distracted by too much conversation. Focus on t...more

Hi. Our body has unique mechanism of homeostasis. We feel thirsty when body needs water. We feel hungry when body needs food. Also once the need of food or water is fulfilled we feel satiety. So go with internal instinct. And don't worry about what much amount of water you drinks. Nature takes motherly care to keep ourself healthy.

Protein supplements have no role in weight gain. Have more natural carbs rich food like unpolished rice, wheat porridge, milk and milk products, bananas, potatoes.

Hello lybrate-user, do regular exercise for 1 hours, then your muscles will get hungry and what ever you eat will get observed by muscles. 1. Drink 2 glass of fatty milk. 2. Eat 2 eggs. Also go with food supplement ; like nutrilite protein powder. Its a who certified.

This is because you have dry mouth and do not have mucus layer which is protective layer and gives you immunity so that bacteria does not penetrate, this can be recreated by iron rich diet, as cold drinks produces dryness in mouth due to co2 hence avoid it, avoid spicy and salty food also.