A Yoga Diet is not about dieting or about how many calories are in foods or any of those things.
This diet is about eating for the nurturing of the spirit and the nourishment of the body.
It is about the way food has an effect on you, whether it makes you feel on top of the world or really sad, tired and sick or energetic and well.
There are five principles to yoga and one of these is the diet.
The diet has what is known as the three Gunas, these are nutrition, yoga and healthy living.
Generally when looking at what the diet is, it is based on vegetarianism.
The advanced yogi often abides by a vegetarian diet.
A vegetarian diet needs a lot of research by beginners because it has to balance the lack of protein in the diet, there can be a loss of important vitamins and minerals, amino acids and numerous other things.
A deficiency of vitamin B12 and iron can lead to anemia in a vegetarian based diet, so it is important to do research, and understand how the body interacts with what is in foods and to know deficiency symptoms when they arise.
The vegetarian diet might say to eat beans and pulses, being for protein, but will everyone abide by this or leave them out because they do not like them.
These are some of the traps.
A vegetarian diet is ideal as long as it is strictly followed, otherwise eat with more balance, plenty of fruit, vegetables, cereals, meat and less junk food.
The diet is suitable for all kinds of people from vegetarians, meat eaters, those with a gluten and wheat intolerance, those with digestion problems and others who have allergies.
The food eaten is a highly nutritious combination.
It is for people who want to live their lives in a more healthy way and it is a diet for helping to improve the mind and give strength to the body.
It is based on a diet which has been used for thousands of years.
It is meant to help to a path of enlightenment and long living.