We are too busy; we don't have so much time to think. When we revert to systems like yoga, we find that their propounders had time to think. So some of the statements, the discoveries, come of use to mankind. Six hundred to seven hundred years ago, works like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and its commentator Swatmarama, told us something related to practical life, something related to diet, exercise, which were based on very good considerations. Even today we refer to them. A simple diet consisting of what we all eat in India. These are the suggestions which have been coming down.
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Wood Apple / Kapith
Wood apple or Goddess of forest (feronia elephantum) also known as Kapith in Sanskrit, Kothu or Keith is still available in the Indian cities thanks to the street vendors who sell seasonal berries, star fruit and other such foods.
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