Hunger: Necessary for good health

You've got to know when to walk away; not everybody is going to share your vision

This is different from the hunger that is associated with problem issues like famine, poverty and eating disorders.This residual hunger that is still left when we don’t eat stomach full.  At a meal, it is always better to rise with a stomach less than full. This state is helpful, as it helps optimise digestion, proper absorption of nutrients, and enough space for elimination of waste. This state  is a signal for body organs to more efficiently. Our body parts have evolved to work in such a way, so as to conserve energy. They will not perform any unnecessary work. So when there is plenty of food supply, they don’t need to extract nutrients most efficiently or digest fully. Also abdomen is like a food processor, when filled over the limit it can’t process food very well. It needs space to digest the food.

Thus if we make it a habit to always eat just the amount of food, so as to leave some Hunger. It will improve health by controlling weight, digesting food, absorbing nutrients. It seems hard in the beginning, but later it feels good like sweet hunger. That remaining hungry is a good feeling, and one can enjoy various tastes of the foods, digestion and good health.

When we are used to eating on fixed time and fixed amounts. We have time for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The serving sizes are also more or less fixed, as suggested by food recipes. Even the most weight loss programs suggest the size of meals. Instead of habit of eating at fixed times, and fixed quantities, we should build or senses to eat when we are hungry and the right amount for individual need. Dependence on stimulating agents like coffee, team, alcohol, tobacco etc. also doesn’t help. These substances mask our senses and we slowly lose control.

·         Always leave some space for food to process, and digest. No over eating.

·         Enhance your senses, move from habitual Mindless eating to Mindful eating.

·         Food is just one channel of life force, there are others. Don’t ignore other forces that sustain life – breathing, sun, and other cosmic energies. When you eat less, body will automatically draw more from other life forces.

Hunger seems hard, but it can help by slowly making it a habit. There is a need to teach users to build our senses so we can individually know, what to eat, when and, how much. Remember not more than 222 grams at a time. and knowledge multiplies by dividing it!