Diet for yoga

Generally the common people think that a special diet is needed for yoga. But that is not so. a pure vegetarian diet, which can be offered to god or a saint, suits a yogi the most. The diet based on fresh ripe fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, milk, yoghurt, etc. is a natural diet. The food containing fish, flesh, fowl and eggs cannot be a natural diet because of two main objections. Firstly, it does not come first hand; secondly it violates the principle essential unity and oneness of all life. Hence a man who practices yoga regularly depends on plants and vegetables for their sustenance and energy. We eat the flesh of herbivorous animals like deer, hare, goat, sheep, etc. and never that of a lion, tiger, jackal or a hyena. Meat contains a high percentage of toxins and more proteins than our body requires. Animal protein contains too much uric acid to be very hard for the liver to digest. Meat eating is an obstruction in concentration and meditation. And it is also a fact on record that excess of protein cannot be stored away as we can store away excess of carbohydrates and fats. Too much of it also overtaxes the liver besides kidneys.