Eating For Your Body Type

Follow these dietary plans for your primary Dosha to help maintain a mind-body balance!

Vata:

Favor – sweet, salty, and sour foods
Eat – warm, oily, or heavy foods
Minimize – cold and raw foods
Add these herbs – basil, pepper, bay, cinnamon, citrus, cloves, frankincense, lavender, pine, sage, and vanilla

Excessive consumption of bitter, astringent and spicy foods contribute to vata imbalance, instead stick to:

• Boiled or steamed starchy vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini and leafy vegtables)

• Ripe fruits

• Warm milk (In moderation)

• Soupy grains (rice, wheat)

• Tea: chamomile, fennel, ginger, liquorice, lemon

Pitta:

Favor – sweet, bitter, astringent tastes
Reduce – hot and spicy foods
Add these herbs – sandalwood, jasmine, mint, lavender, fennel, and chamomile, peppermint, curry leaves,

Excessive alcohol or hot, spicy, oily, fried, salty, and fermented foods can cause a pitta imbalance, instead stick to:

• Boiled, steamed, raw vegetables

• Sweet fruits

• Moderate amounts of dairy

• Soupy grains (rice, barley, oats)

• Tea: fennel, chamomile, peppermint, spearmint, red clover

Kapha:

Favor – pungent, bitter, astringent tastes
Minimize – heavy foods, salt, and dairy products
Add these herbs – stimulating aromas, including cloves, cinnamon, juniper, and marjoram

Excessive food consumption can contribute to a kapha imbalance, so make sure to stick to a light, warm, low-fat diet of pungent, bitter, and astringent foods like:

• Boiled, steamed, raw vegetables

• Ripe fruits (except banana)

• Fat-free buttermilk (limit all other dairy)

• Grains (corn, millet, rye, oats, barley)

• Strong spices (pepper, paprika, salt, garlic, basil, cloves, allspice, fennel, mustard, turmeric, cumin, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, black pepper)

• Honey instead of sugar

• Tea: cinnamon, fenugreek, peppermint, raspberry

Give these dietary suggestions a try to keep your primary Dosha balanced!

Namaste,
NuPowerYoga Team