title: Place of nutrition in yoga.
abstract: Nutrition plays a very vital role in our life. Yoga and Ayurveda had laid down the foundations of dietetics. The valuable guidelines regarding various food articles and diet for Yoga Sadhaka, to achieve maximum benefits, are given in traditional yoga texts like Hatha Pradipika and Gheranda Samhitha. Now is the time to evaluate the place of nutrition in Yoga and to study how the dietetic principles in yoga will help to eradicate the national problem of Mal-nutrition and poverty which is the pressing need of the moment.
authors.affiliation: Scientific Research Department kaivalyadhama, Lonavla-410 403, India .
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Desai