AAHARAVIDHIVIDHAN - AN OBSERVATIONAL SURVEY STUDY IN PEOPLE OF AGE BETWEEN 21 TO 60 YEARS IN MAHARASHTRA

Ajay Thote; Shrikant Deshmukh; Anilkumar Burley; Nimesh Sangode

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2018

AAHARAVIDHIVIDHAN - AN OBSERVATIONAL SURVEY STUDY IN PEOPLE OF AGE BETWEEN 21 TO 60 YEARS IN MAHARASHTRA

Ajay Thote, Shrikant Deshmukh, Anilkumar Burley, Nimesh Sangode

Abstract :

Life expectancy is now reduced than 100 years by making mistakes in taking food, and it may also be responsible for the increase of incidence rate of many diseases before the age of 40 years, very few people will live for more than 100 years having healthy life till the end. How a person eats that matters for long life expectancy rather than what he eats. These are stated in Ayurveda – Charaka Samhita thousand years ago, termed as Aaharavidhividhan. In this busy life people forget to follow these rules, and thus life expectancy is reduced than 100 years in past few decades. People don’t know about the Aaharavidhividhan and unknowingly hampering the health which ultimately results in decreased life expectancy.

Total 271 people were screened under this observational survey study, and 250 were selected by lottery method of simple random sampling to conclude. At the end of an observational survey study, it was found that 73 % people were following Aaharavidhividhan as a whole and it is necessary to educate them to follow these rules for maintaining healthy life which will help to increase the life expectancy.