 I am proud that when I came in, I saw on the floor a toy that clearly your son wants to play with and it was Minnie Mouse. Yeah, he likes Minnie Mouse a lot. I like that. He likes them all. Mickey Mouse is his favorite. Mickey's his favorite? No, like the crew of Mickey Mouse. Okay, he's obsessed. Really? Yes. Go back to her stupid directions, eat some Corbin. This is an interesting video. This is called Best Ancient Eating Habits by Dr. Han Saji. So she explains a lot of so many cultures. So many cultures and so many beautiful, there's so many beautiful and different ways conducting their lives. An ancient way of eating in India is pretty special and has entire science behind it. So she explains, obviously, we know how a lot of Indians eat, obviously, not all because we, you know, because people's like all Indians eat with their hands, but they don't always eat with their hands as well. Exactly. But I know that's a... In fact, I can tell you the difference I saw definitively having been to the different cities and this may just have been my experience, but there was a much bigger proportion of people eating with their hands in Calcutta, Bengalis. It probably also depends on what style of restaurant you're going to as well. I think so. Like the five star restaurant we went to, they were eating with you. That's going to be very, very different. So I guess it's a little different that way, but she's going to explain some of it. So. Namaskar. Namaskar. Decoding Indian ways of eating food is a very, very complex subject to understand. The world is experimenting new, new foods, new recipes, new combinations and new styles of consuming it to make it more aesthetically beautiful. But hardly they know that they are breaking the age-old science of perfect and healthy eating. How we eat is equally important as what we eat. Our ancestors have passed on to us the right recipes, the right ways to eat and the right ways of making it. It's time that we start acknowledging it, its science and its significance. Food is a function of many variables. Season, geography, local availability, attitude and body type. But we handle their attention to the medium and the ways in which we consume it. And this is our topic of focus today. Right medium of food consumption. That too, Indian ways. Number one, eating with ants. In this aesthetically driven modern world, some consider eating food with ants to be unhygienic and unpleasant. They consider eating with spoon and other gadgets is more comfortable. They are used to that and they would like to do that. According to Ayurvedic tradition, eating food should involve all senses. The touch of food to your fingers and the feeling of its texture can really trigger the nerve endings of your fingers. These nerve stimulation are known to activate and stimulate your digestive juices. Also, according to Ayurveda, these five fingers represent five constituents of food. Thumb represents fire, Agni, four-finger air, Vayu, middle finger Akash, Keter, real finger earth, Rithvi, and little finger represents water, jaggery. Holding food with all the five fingers is like a good mudra. It symbolizes the union of all elements which are essential for the normal functioning of our body. Don't be embarrassed by eating food with your hands. Show to the world the right way of eating. Indian way. Number two, sitting on the floor in India, sitting on the floor and eating together is a family activity. You understand in yoga, they say that sitting on the floor involves so many muscles. You see, eating food in sitting position presses the lower spine and relaxes the whole body. The back and forth movement while eating gives nice compression to your abdomen and this stimulates the release of digestive juices. The compression is maximum in sitting position. Sitting in chair brings more pressure on your heart. When you are sitting on chair, your heart has to really pump blood from toe upwards against gravity and that is a strain. I would say that even on chair, if you bring your both legs up and sit, you would be reducing the gravity force and that would help your heart and the general health condition. So, more blood is facilitated for more digestion. Sitting posture in naturally a yoga posture by itself, it has a calming effect on your mind. When the individual sits on the floor, the nervous system also performs better and the transmission of signals happens very easily, very effectively. As a result, sitting on the floor and eating has a huge weight reduction advantage. So, sit and enjoy your meals. Third, relation between food and vessels partner. Indian culture has really studied the effect of different food on different vessels. These vessels can have positive or even negative effect on your food. In Indian tradition, every vessel has its own advantage in cooking or in storing food. Copper has a strong intoxication property over water. That is why copper vessel was used for storing the water right from the beginning in India. Another example, ghee if stored in a bronze vessel can become toxic. That is why ghee is stored in a metal vessel and now the metal available is steel. So, now with us we have steel vessel. So, ghee should be stored in steel vessel. In olden times, fruits used to be kept in the leaves and they would always remain healthy, stored values in olden times for crushing. Hey, I deeply apologize for what just happened. We finished the video and this hasn't happened in a long, long time. A long time. But apparently my storage was full and you missed the second half of that video. So, please do watch it so that you can see. We pretty much sat just silent. Yeah, you didn't miss much in terms of our reaction. But yeah, we loved the video. I thought that the video was great. But we did point out that one thing wasn't mentioned. Yeah, she said all your senses. Including your smell. Yeah. And nothing negative was said about smelling your food before you eat it. It's supposed to be done with all your senses. So, if you're supposed to use your hands to eat it, I'm sure you're supposed to be smelling what you eat. I'd assume so. I would think you should be smelling it. That's why I smell your mouth. Wow, hold on. That was good. One of the things, I don't know if it's in this what we watched, but in her video she mentioned about eating in silence. And what I've noticed and I don't like it when this happens is I can be really busy and stop to get something to eat. And while I'm eating, I'm doing stuff on my phone, I'm talking to somebody and then I'm done eating. And I realize I didn't even really taste what I was eating. And I don't like it when that happens because I love food. And I do feel a sense of like, it's not guilt, but it's a sense of, wow, food isn't just to hork it down and get me to survive. I missed that opportunity and forgetting, especially here in America, you grow up. I've never been hungry. You know what I mean? I don't know hunger. Real hunger, yeah. Exactly. I don't know what it means to go to bed at night and you haven't eaten for two days, though you'll want to because you can't. Anytime I've been hungry, it's been by my choice. So we are so blessed to be able to eat. And I think we do take for granted we eat like crap in America. We really do. So I think she's, I think she's great. She was great. Real sweet. I do apologize for the skin for the video cutting off. That's all I can say. I'm sorry. But if you'd like to finish the rest of the video, I'll link it in the description below. Let us know. 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