Excerising the Trunk

Author(s): Sitadevi Yogendra
Publisher: Z_Umravkunvarji_Diksha_Swarna_Jayanti_Smruti_Granth_012035.pdf

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पंचम खण्ड / 326 (b) Food for Health-The problem of quantity and quality of food is as important for health as is the problem of physical exercise. No amount of exercise could offer all the hygienic good it can, if the quantity and quality of food remains unadjusted to individual physiologic need. Especially in fighting constipation, food-the right kind of food- deserves proper attention. Bulk in the form of green leafy vagetables is as good for health as it is for curing constipation and, thus, for reducing weight. Cutting down the quota of essential nutrients with a view to reducing weight is unhygienic and even dangerous. Food is a source of energy wbich no women should overlook in her craze to look slim and sylpblike. It too often occurs that more women than is ordinarily believed dedy themselves enough food in the false hope that it will lead to some reduction in the size of their figure. Unfortunately, this assumption is so prevalent that girls even from their earliest teens begin to discard solid and sustaining food, and take to liquid or soft diet. The consequence of such low, unbalanced and inadequate diet is that the pelvic development--the mainstay of woman's health, strength and beauty is arrested. And though the girls may grow normally in other respects the size and strength of their pelvic organs remain like that of an immature girl. Apart from the loss of proportion which an ill-developed figure fosters, there is also the added risk to health both of the body and the mind due to impaired functions of the ovaries. For it is a scientific fact that on the normal functioning of the ovaries not merely the health but also the charm, personality and behaviour of a woman as woman depends. In the light of the above, the same course of action would be to eat the right quality of food in the right quantities. Given adequate and balanced diet, the individual bas only to rely upon the influence of rational exercising to keep in check any tendency of the figure to outgrow the limits of changing fashion. Here it is that the yoga Physical Education and bygiene come to the help of the fair sex in an admirable way. What is more, the yoga postural training offered requires no accessories not much of personal guidance, less of muscular exertion and the least of violence which is involved jo ibe too frequent repetitions as happens to be the case with all other systems of physical exercise, -Santa Cruz, Bombay