Kathleen,
Thanks for your question.
I appreciate that you're enjoying your practice and wish to add healthy food, practices, and habits to your daily life. That is natural, and you will find much information about Ayurvedic Health on the Web. Indeed, Maharishi Ayurveda is one of the programs offered by the Transcendental Meditation organization (see www.mapi.com, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda, www.ayurveda.com, www.chopra.com/ayurveda).
NSR Meditation is offered as a low-cost alternative to Transcendental Meditation. In order to maximize our effectiveness in offering NSR Meditation to everyone, we focus only on teaching transcending. Everything that is specifically related to improving daily life we leave to the experts in those areas.
By focusing our organizational charter in this one direction, we hope to make this simple, effortless mental technique acceptable to everyone without any religious or mystical baggage. For this reason, we do not discuss mystical, paranormal, or scientifically unproven approaches to the improvement of life. Instead, we focus on strengthening the individual nervous system. With a stronger nervous system, anyone can make more intelligent choices about health care, diet, exercise, and other aspects of our personal life.
By not prescribing how people should live, NSR Meditation remains a universal technique, one that anyone would want to learn and practice.
In saying all this, I am not negating the value of any specific health system, and I do wish you luck in finding the information for which you are searching. However, it is definitely outside of the topic of the NSR Forum, which is the discussion of experiences during the practice of NSR Meditation.
David Spector
NSR Meditation/USA
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