City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

The art of balanced living, the right diet and lifestyle for your body type, Dr Shaun Matthews

Includes bibliographical references

The art of balanced living

Dr Shaun Matthews

the right diet and lifestyle for your body type

FITNESS & DIET. The Art of Balanced Living introduces the body-type diet of the ancient Indian Ayurveda tradition and shows how it can help us live healthier, happier and more balanced lives today. The advice in The Art of Balanced Living is designed to help you sustain wellbeing and overcome stressful times and events. It based on the bodytyping system of Ayurveda, India's traditional system of healing. Elements of Ayurveda are well known around the world, for example, yoga and meditation. However, until now, only a select few have known about the body type diet and how it affects our physical, emotional and mental health. The three body types, or doshas, are: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. They reflect and affect everything from the health of our skin to the state of our finances. * At the physical level, our body type 1has a bearing on how we walk, our skin type, the weather we enjoy and how our digestion functions