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How To Balance Kapha With Diet

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Kapha loves comfort and the good life. They love sweets and satisfying comfort foods like mashed potatoes. Some Kaphas love the creamy texture of pudding and ice cream, others love salty, crunchy chips. Kapha people like familiar foods and resist trying new things.

It's best for Kapha to avoid eating after dark, when their body is tired and metabolism starts to wane. Kapha people who eat late at night will store their calories as fat and quickly gain weight. Kaphas do best on a diet of light and dry foods with plenty of vegetables and legumes.

Most Kaphas have trouble resisting food cravings. Since discipline is a struggle for Kapha, sweets and cakes should be removed from the home. Foods with bitter taste can help Kapha overcome food cravings, as bitter taste refreshes the palate. Bitter taste gives Kapha an opportunity to be more disciplined. It is also the most cleansing taste, which may help Kapha lose weight.

Kapha's nature is cool and dull. Generous amounts of spices can add vitality to their cooking and energize their life. Hot spices such as cayenne, black pepper, and fenugreek reinvigorate Kapha. These spices will make you feel hot and increase your heart rate, positive signs that your fluids are circulating and that the spices are working to stimulate you from within.

Kapha people tend toward slow, heavy digestion and do well avoiding dairy, wheat, and sugar. Cold foods are generally contraindicated. Raw food astringes Kapha's moist nature and the roughness of raw vegetables scrubs their GI tract clean.

Remedies for the following imbalanced qualities:

If you don't know your body type yet, take the quizzes on Joyful Belly to find out. If you do know your body type, use these resources to balance Kapha:

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John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda. His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful. John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda, offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.

John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy, & botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. John, his wife Natalie and their 7 kids live in Asheville, NC

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Kimberly Kubicke Asbury park, NJ
2017-03-30
“It sounds like you would benefit from more of the building, yet Kapha pacifying foods like sweet potato, potato, whole grains like millet, quinoa and adding some more fat to your diet in the form of good quality oils like ghee. Where do you get most of your protein?"
Kimberly Kubicke Asbury park, NJ
2017-03-31
“There could certainly be an issue with eating too much bulk. It's hard to say what's right for you based on so little information. We are currently running a half price special on one on one consultations. We could offer you a lot more guidance through on of those. Here is the link with more info and to sign up:https://www.joyfulbelly.com/wordpress/ayurveda-consultation/?lnk=273"
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