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Alaimentary

Fast to Aarogyam

Fasting purifies the body, boosts stamina, enhances endurance, stabilises
blood pressure levels, regulates sugar levels, promotes focus and nourishes

physical health for a good life, writes Nagesh Alai

Two weeks ago, I happened to dine out at daily home to station and station to office
an organic gourmet restaurant, curiosity walks and all the in-between speed-walks
aroused by an interesting appellation, to the High Court and the City Civil courts
Nude Food Café, set in an outhouse of for hearings, he never put on an inch of
an old bungalow on a main throughfare. weight in all these decades. A believer in
Eclectic menu apart, I noticed that they public transport, he hardly ever used his car
serve only half a glass of water. Used as except for weekend family outings. What
I am to drink a full glass; I was about to has also been his consistent practise is to
ask for more when I noticed the coaster eat sparingly and being happy with just 60
saying “We serve only half a glass of water. to 70% filled stomach. I have yet to come
If you want more, please ask. We do not across a healthier individual. He is frugal
wish to waste water. What is left in your and tempered in all his consumptions – be it
glass is used to water the plant”. There sensory or sartorial needs.
were plants and trees aplenty around. A Contrastingly, another well-wisher who
compelling messaging indeed – both from has since migrated to the cosmic world,
an environment perspective as well as had a constant battle with the bulge in the
tempered consumption. 40 odd years that I knew him. Fleeting
Talking of tempered consumption, it between profligate and frugal consumption
reminds me of a long standing lawyer of everything and hopping from one dietary
friend, nudging 70, but who is as fit and fad to another, all of which were as transient
sprightly as he was in his 30’s. Between the as his excitement levels, he never could win

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