‘’Conceptual Study on Virrudha Ahara”

Abstract

Food plays a decisive role in development, sustenance, reproduction and termination of life. Through centuries,
Food has been recognized as an important factor for human beings, in health and diseased state. Man has always
been interested in food and the history of man to a large extent has been a struggle to obtain food. Food (Ahara)
supplies bio-energy to body. This bio-energy is supplied by proper and adequate nutrition in the form of its
essential constituents viz. proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins and water.1 The practice of
Aharavidhi (dietetics) is an ancient, empirical and elegant art and it is only in the early years of the last century
that nutrition and dietetics have come to acquire the status of distinct discipline.