{"id":107921,"date":"2017-10-03T10:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=107921"},"modified":"2017-10-03T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T04:36:01","slug":"mahatmas-diet-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/mahatmas-diet-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahatmas diet and mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Gandhi’s words, ‘The body was never meant to be treated as a refuse bin, holding all the foods that the palate demands.’<\/p>\n

He deeply believed that our diet should be healthy since, for him, it was also a key part of learning self-restraint.<\/p>\n

He experimented with a variety of diets throughout his life and went completely vegan for six years refusing to even touch milk products.<\/p>\n

\"Mahatmas<\/p>\n

Finally, he gave into his doctor\u2019s demands and starting consuming goat milk which he found strengthening. Realising the folly of his youth, he went on to include a host of milk products in his diet.<\/p>\n

His everyday food comprised a litre of goat\u2019s milk, 150 gm of cereals, 75 gm leafy vegetables, 125 gm other vegetables, 25 gm salad, 40 gm ghee or butter, and 40-50 gm jaggery or sugar.<\/p>\n

While anyone would say that his life was full of stressful situations, he derived his strength from meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Gandhi’s words, ‘The body was never meant to be treated as a refuse bin, holding all the foods that the palate demands.’ He deeply believed that our diet should be healthy since, for him, it was also a key part of learning self-restraint. He experimented with a variety of diets throughout his life and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29598,3,2],"tags":[54948,54946,54949,54950,54947,54951,4820,54941,54945,54942,41778,54944,21797,54943],"class_list":["post-107921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-125-gm-other-vegetables","tag-150-gm-of-cereals","tag-25-gm-salad","tag-40-gm-ghee-or-butter","tag-75-gm-leafy-vegetables","tag-and-40-50-gm-jaggery","tag-diet","tag-gandhis-words","tag-goat-milk","tag-healthy-since","tag-meditation","tag-milk-products","tag-sugar","tag-variety-of-diets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gandhieating.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}