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cleanliness of our hands and nails. If you are fashionable of increasing nails, you should keep in your mind that your nails are not dirty else the dirt of nails will go to your stomach directly together with the diet you take resulting in making you suffered from the various diseases.
The fourth point to keep in mind about the diet is that a glass of water should be arranged before starting the meal so that you can drink water immediately if required during the meal. You should keep a towel with you also in order to wipe your hands after washing them. It is very necessary to wash your hands before and after taking the food.
Take your diet peacefully with patience. The food taken in haste, doesn't get mixed up with the saliva and it causes indigestion. If you take food without chewing it properly, the intestines will be compelled to do the work of the teeth. The food should be taken like a saint.
One more thing to be kept in mind about the diet is that it should be cooked with pure and pious feelings. As the feelings are at the time of cooking, so will the results be of it. If we provide food unwillingly to someone, it will not be useful for him. The food will become poisonous if it is served with hatred feelings. If we share whatsoever the quantity of food we have it will act as the blessings of God.
As a conclusion the food must be pure and it should be taken peacefully in a silent way. The purity and positivity of food should be preferred. Never think to eat free of charge. If you have to dine at any social function, contribute some thing financially in order to avoid the blame of free fund tendency. Take food only when you feel sufficient appetite. The Peace and pleasure of body and mind are the necessary aspects of diet whether it is a matter of dining or making someone to dine. Remember that the diet you take contains the healthiness of body and mind. 116
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