Ayurvedic Guidelines for Healthy Eating: Allow 3 Hours or More Between Meals
Ayurveda teaches that taking food before true hunger returns leads to poor digestion. Using the analogy of a campfire, when wood is put onto the fire, at first it decreases the strength of the fire. Eventually, as the wood burns, the fire becomes stronger. At some time, it peaks. After that, it begins to die down, as there is not enough wood to sustain the fire. In the body, when there is not enough food to sustain the digestive fire, the fire calls out for more food. This is the appetite returning. Ayurvedic Guidelines for Healthy Eating: Allow Three Hours or More Between Meals.