- White sugar: affects pancreas and causes diabetes, increase acidity of blood and uric acid that lead to gout and high blood pressure
Substitutes: sugar cane juice, grapes, honey, jaggery and fruits like banana, carrots, beets, papaya, apple, orange, watermelon etc.
- Salt: cause water retention in the body and increase the blood volume and cardiac output resulting high blood pressure. Making bones weak. Put a heavy burden on kidney to remove excess salt. Kidney can’t remove more than 4-5gm of salt per day. Increase oedema and uric acid.
Substitutes: rock salt, black salt ( kala namak). Salt already present in natural foods such as tomato , pumpkin , potato, onion, lemon, wheat ,carrot, spinach, cabbage , guava, grape cucumber, apple etc.
- Coffee and Tea: increase urine output and acidity, causes calcium loss, raised cholesterol, effect on kidney and liver. and aggravates diabetes
Substitutes: used herbal tea & green tea
- Smoking & Tobacco: peptic ulcer, respiratory illness, Osteoporosis ( weakening ofbones ) , cancer ,heart ailments, stroke and paralysis,
- Alcohol: Damage kidney and liver, Cancer and other deadly disease
- Refined Cereals ( white flour, polished rice):vitamin B deficiency , fatigue, weakening of bones, increased inblood sugar.
- Fatty foods & Cholesterol: Heart disease, Diabetes, Hypertension, Osteoarthritis etc.
Reduce 6 ‘S’ for healthy living
ü Sugar
ü Salt
ü Spices
ü Saturated fats
ü Smoking
ü Stress & Strain
