All of us are already a Parent !!!

Yes, we are all a parent right from the time we were given life and shape inside our mother's womb. Whhaaatt ??? Why is this fellow telling the vice versa. Our dad and mom should be our parents and we are their child but how will we become a parent that too from our childhood ? 

I'm my Parent's child. My STOMACH is my child. Yes, treat your stomach just like the way you will treat your child.

Aahaan !!! Okay, let us see why I am telling such :-)

Now let us assume that you are already a parent of an year old child. Now answer me the below questions.

• Will you feed the child with a very hot cup of tea early morning as soon as it wakes up ?
• Will you feed the child with very spicy idly/ oily vada or hard chapathi/oily puri in the early morning ?
• Will you feed the child with real spicy gravy or sourish curd for lunch ?

    
     If you do any of the above to your child and if at all the child screams due to digestion problems, will you be able to figure out which meal is responsible for the stomach upset or is it really the stomach upset or motion trouble(pain in the large intestine) or headache ? Do we have an answer for this ? To be frank, none of us have that wisdom to scan the body with our eyes or sense the child by just hearing the scream. Neither any man-made machine in this world can guess that correctly. Maybe doctors can predict with what they have learnt but they cant exactly tell what would have troubled the child if the reason lies internal. The miraculous 'bio-engine', 'bio-furnace' Stomach is such powerful that it's functionality cant be accurately measured by human minds. If your eyes dilate on this statement, try to find a machine which takes food as input and gives blood as output.

     Now assume your stomach, the greatest bio-furnace gifted to all living beings by the almighty nature as the above mentioned 'child'. What have we been doing for decades right from the time we were given all the above mentioned foods. Now all of you would start scolding me that I am expecting all of you to eat only fruits and salads instead of cooked foods. No that is not my point. Eat whatever you want, but have few things in mind. Treat those foods just like you are feeding your child. You must be sure that it wont cause you any pre-digestive and post-digestive problems. How to determine them ? To determine pre-digestive problems, you must know what it is made up of. Feel the hunger and in addition do not chew consciously and grind your food items. Your body has that wisdom on how to chew foods; you just eat the proper ones, that will do. Leave the post-digestion to your body, it will take care as we cannot change anything in this part. You can have any beverages but you must be sure of what it is made up of and will you provide the same to an year old child. Ok then how about tea/coffee ? One may have it with a medium heat or if it is a cold drink, see to that the liquid looses it's cold temperature before it leaves your throat. Please be mindful of the temperature of your stomach. Never your stomach will be accept too cold or too hot foods. So anything of that sort has to go through a conversion by your stomach and it is is extremely hot or extremely cold, that can spoil your child's health.

It is all simple if you do it right. 

1. Feel the hunger
2. Know what the food you eat is made up of. You must also be mindful of the chemicals used in its lifecycle of the food you eat because nowadays most of the troubles rise out of these chemicals. You could hear many telling that they are eating the right food but still they are unable to predict where the issue is.
3. Drink water only as much as your stomach expects from you. If you could properly observe, you will definitely know the quantity. Taking gallons of water is of no use rather putting your kidneys and urinary bladders under stress just like how you feel when your lead or manager loads you with heavy work apart from what you do usually.
4. There is no necessity of taking water when you are eating. Remember, food is for hunger and similarly water is for thirst. If you could really observe people who have understood the digestive process, they don't consume water when they eat. They eat for hunger and drink water for thirst. We have been brought up with a practise of food in the mouth and water to swallow it. Have a doubt ? Observe any baby in you neighbourhood when the mom feeds. Food + water all the way. Because of this, we have habituated to it which is not necessary. But it is not a rule. If you have an urge to drink, you may very well take some while eating rather than following this as a rule. 

     I would also like to add something in addition here. Many of us would have observed people who might appear old externally but are enthusiastic all the time. Ever asked them what is the secret ? They might answer in other terms but for sure they will give the credit to the food they eat, the way they treat their stomach indeed. Give the age to others who are celebrating those useless birthdays and on the other hand, they threaten you that you are 40 years odl and viable to BP, diabetes and you are 50 years old and viable to osteoporosis and calcium deficit problems. I think I am outdated, talking about 40's and 50's. Nowadays, they started threatening that in twenties people are having these troubles due to lifestyle changes and work culture. Always guess your internal age by the level of enthusiasm inside you. If possible, spend sometime to read through the book, 'Ageless Body, Timeless Mind' by Deepak Chopra, you will get to know many secrets about aging. After all, I don't believe in aging. You are really old only when that YOU inside you gets old. Think about it !!!