What are the best dietary practices for yoga practitioners?

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Most importantly, make sure these changes do not create stress or imbalance in your life. Eat fresh seasonal foods. ... Be vegetarian. ... Avoid chemicals and stimulants. ... Eat at regular intervals and allow space between meals. ... Eat two hours before asana practice or sleep. ... Make lunch...
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Most importantly, make sure these changes do not create stress or imbalance in your life. Eat fresh seasonal foods. ... Be vegetarian. ... Avoid chemicals and stimulants. ... Eat at regular intervals and allow space between meals. ... Eat two hours before asana practice or sleep. ... Make lunch the biggest meal of the day. read less
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Many people believe that a yogic diet should be made of non-harming foods, or those that minimize harm to yourself or other living creatures. In line with this principle, many people who follow a yogic diet will choose to be vegetarian or vegan.
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Yoga is Good for your health & your soul.

YOGIS BELIEVE IN VEGETARIAN DIET: It is believed that yogis should eat a vegetarian diet. This is because animal protein contains too much uric acid and other toxins. Some get eliminated but rest gets deposited in the tissues and joints.
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A yoyic diet should be free from chemicals and stimulants. You must exclude alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, these food divert from concentration, focus and hinder your yoga regime. Yogis advocate a vegetarian diet as one of the basics principal of yoga is not to harm any living creatures. This is a pure...
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A yoyic diet should be free from chemicals and stimulants. You must exclude alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, these food divert from concentration, focus and hinder your yoga regime. Yogis advocate a vegetarian diet as one of the basics principal of yoga is not to harm any living creatures. This is a pure diet that, with careful planning,leads to optimum health and a peaceful mind in control of a fit body. read less
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