The individualized diet is the key to personalized medicine. Specific foods send us toward better health. They solve the chronic problem of hunger on a cellular level in people who are eating the typical western, urban, modern diet. Most people today are unaware of the somewhat irrelevant role of calories, which measure energy in a crucible in the laboratory … in comparison to the Ayurvedic parameter of digestibility, which measures the bodyʼs response to taking nourishment deep into the cells.
So not only do we have watch what we eat(taste), but also what we hear, smell, see and touch. Ayurveda has a much deeper understanding of nutrition.