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History of Indian Civilizations and their food habits.

To understand the history of the subcontinent, we have to travel back many thousands of years when the Indian civilization comprised of modern India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan all the way up to boundaries of China. The earliest known civilization of the era was the Indus Valley Civilization where in the ruins of Mo hen-jo-daro and that of Harappa were discovered which provided immense knowledge as understanding as to the lifestyle of people of that era.

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Food as Medicine and Medicine as Food

This forms an extremely important statement because the distinction between food as medicine and vice versa is a concept which has been been derived over years. The reason we take this into consideration is because food apart from being a source of energy and nourishment also helps treat and prevent certain disorders. Right from the ancient times where in the Greeks and Chinese spoke of the benefits of food in treating certain disorders to introducing the concept of tea enriched with herbs beneficial to health up to the age of Ayurveda which also enhanced on the importance of diet and propagated the consumption of certain foods to benefit health, we see how the link between food and medicine has been formed.

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Importance of food and diet in Ayurveda