Yoga To Ensure Food & Water Security
A lot of you might already be aware of global climate crisis and would have read about the various climate change symptoms occurring around the world. It rains and snows when it is supposed to be spring and it is sweltering hot when it is supposed to be fall.
However, these are not the only results of climate change. Recently, it has been found that there are more cases of famine around the world which has left numerous areas both thirsty and hungry. With no water to drink or to provide to your crop and livestock, you lose the chance of growing some food for yourself and your family too which is resulting in world hunger.
Food and Water Security
Food security is defined as something when all the people, …show more content…
Once you start practicing yoga, you see what is right and what is wrong. This is why Yoga would be a perfect solution for creating awareness among people in order to stop the food …show more content…
With yoga, you open your senses and understand how much food you need to consume and how much you can save or help in feeding others.
If everyone starts practicing yoga and realizes the need to save food and consume only the required amount of food, then we would end up saving a lot of food for the future also. Yoga helps in opening your consciousness and making you realize that someone is dying of hunger while you waste the food given to you. As a result, people make conscious efforts to take only how much they will eat and avoid wasting as much as they can.
Yoga also teaches us that one doesn’t need to eat fancy or luxurious food to stay healthy. In fact, simple food is often the best choice if one wants to stay fit and healthy. It will make you realize that eating junk food is actually harmful to your body and mind and that using additives like oil, spices, etc. are not needed to live a healthy and long life. Yoga opens our eyes to see that once we stop wasting food and indulging in food which is not healthy, we have enough left to preserve or feed
A lot of you might already be aware of global climate crisis and would have read about the various climate change symptoms occurring around the world. It rains and snows when it is supposed to be spring and it is sweltering hot when it is supposed to be fall.
However, these are not the only results of climate change. Recently, it has been found that there are more cases of famine around the world which has left numerous areas both thirsty and hungry. With no water to drink or to provide to your crop and livestock, you lose the chance of growing some food for yourself and your family too which is resulting in world hunger.
Food and Water Security
Food security is defined as something when all the people, …show more content…
Once you start practicing yoga, you see what is right and what is wrong. This is why Yoga would be a perfect solution for creating awareness among people in order to stop the food …show more content…
With yoga, you open your senses and understand how much food you need to consume and how much you can save or help in feeding others.
If everyone starts practicing yoga and realizes the need to save food and consume only the required amount of food, then we would end up saving a lot of food for the future also. Yoga helps in opening your consciousness and making you realize that someone is dying of hunger while you waste the food given to you. As a result, people make conscious efforts to take only how much they will eat and avoid wasting as much as they can.
Yoga also teaches us that one doesn’t need to eat fancy or luxurious food to stay healthy. In fact, simple food is often the best choice if one wants to stay fit and healthy. It will make you realize that eating junk food is actually harmful to your body and mind and that using additives like oil, spices, etc. are not needed to live a healthy and long life. Yoga opens our eyes to see that once we stop wasting food and indulging in food which is not healthy, we have enough left to preserve or feed