Diet and nutrition concepts in ayurveda: Gleaming into opportunities for evidence-based applications in health care

Abstract

Evidence-based practice in health care is about integrating individual clinical expertise and the best external evidence. Ancient Ayurvedic scriptures present substantial textual hypothesis and practice-based evidences referring to diet and nutrition and provide ample opportunity of their cross validation to generate more rigorous evidences and eventual applications. This chapter reappraises the concepts of Ayurvedic diet and nutrition and examines them in the light of contemporary evidences, citing opportunities to convert them into dependable pieces of information through the process of rigorous methods of scientific research.