Diet in growing age a Unani validation

ABSTRACT

Diet has been a big concern throughout the ages for medical scholars about the behaviour and kind of food useful for development of body in growing age and maintenance of health in general. In present time, the concept of balanced diet has finally resulted in the enrichment of the scientific use of nutrition. In Tibb, diet is one of the most important factor included in six essential factors which maintain body inter-relationship and continuously aims at readjustment of its various bio-chemical processes and physiological functions accordingly. A person of a particular habitat temperament, profession, and age requires a particular balanced diet so that it fulfils the special demands as required by every individual separately. Whenever, there is a change in climate and diet, the living body is affected. Therefore, the diet is to be balanced and taken according to the demand of the body in a given climate, habitat and seasonal variation. Diet in a growing age has been therefore taken into account for description of balanced or normalized temperament which could be maintained and so the health could be protected