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Specific food and their consequences if eaten at night:

1. High Fat food:Oily, cheese, french fries, pizzas with extra cheese, greasy food, etc. all fall into the category of high fatfood which on consuming late in the night gets stored in the digestive tract.

2. Spicy snacks: Not only does eating spicy food is the worst to eat at night, but also spicy food can disrupt your sleeppatterns. In addition, makes it more difficult to sleep because of the invasion of endorphins, spicy foods can also make youfeel physically uncomfortable. Spicy foods can cause heartburn, stomach problems and exacerbate existing ones.

3. Caffeine: Many people already understand this to avoid caffeine at night, unless you really intend to stay awake until lateat night. Most of you probably know better to avoid caffeinated coffee or tea at night, but the thing is, many foods alsocontain caffeine.

4. Red Meat: Red meat is one type of food that takes a very long time to digest, because a number of protein and fat found inmost types of red meat. As a result, consuming red meat at night will produce endorphins which makes it more difficult foryou to fall asleep.

5. Nuts: You must be thinking, arent nuts a very healthy food? Of course its true beans have lots of fiber, which isundoubtedly very good for your body. Unfortunately, the fibers made of beans as the worst food to eat at night. Nuts canmake digestion become uncomfortable, and again can cause stomach problems at night.

Different religious views:

1. The person who drinks alcohol, meat, eats after sunset and consumes vegetables grown under the ground; any kind ofpilgrimage, prayers and any kind of rites performed by such kind of a person bears no fruit.

- Mahabharat (Rishishvarbharat)

2. The soul which eats after sunset even in the monsoons, the sins committed by him cannot be purified even if he doesthousands of the Chandrayantap.

- Rishishvarbharat (Vaidikdarshan)

3. The soul which eats before sunset and especially in the monsoon abdicates eating after sunset; that person gets whatever hedesires in this life as well as the next life.

- Yogvashisht Purvaghshlo 108

4. In the Markandpuran, it is said that after sunset drinking water is equivalent to drinking blood & eating food to eatingmeat.

- Markandrishi

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5. The optimum daily routine for a man is to avoid eating at night since the fire required to digest the food is very weakduring that period.

Charaksanhita & Ashtanga Sangraha

6. In the ancient scriptures of the Hindus, it is said that, which means eating at nightis the first doorway to hell.

Even, bees, sparrows, parrots, crows, pigeons and many other kinds of birds dont eat after sunset.

Of all the religions in the world, the Jain Dharma is unique in examining with great care and thoughtfulness even suchcomparatively small matters as food and drink. The Jain dharma concentrates equally on the development of the mind, body& soul. Certain effects of food, both good and bad, fall not only on the body, but also on the mind. After all, what you eat iswhat you think.

Sins committed (paap) if you eat after sunset:

The amount of bad karma (paap) a person accumulates in committing a sin of killing living beings for 96 births is equal tocommitting a sin of drying one lake. Similarly, the amount of bad karma a person collects in drying lakes for 108 births isequal to the sin committed in burning one forest. The amount of karma which you accumulate in committing a sin of burningforests for 101 births is equal to committing a sin of doing 1 Kuvanijya (a business which is considered wrong morally) .The amount of karma collected in commiting a sin of doing Kuvanijya for 144 births is equal to falsely accusing someonefor once. Similarly, the amount of karmas, one accumulates in committing the sins of falsely accusing someone for 151 births,more than that is the sin committed in having a relationship with another woman. The amount of bad karma, collected incommitting a sin of having a relationship with another woman for 199 births, more than that is the sin committed in havingfood at night for once.

Such high is the amount of karmas which a person builds in eating after sunset for 1 day. This if you calculate with the daysyou have eaten after sunset in your entire life till date, the amount of karma accumulated is innumerable.

If you eat food before sunset for your entire life, you receive the fruits of fasting for half of your life. To give up eating aftersunset paves the way to the doorway of heaven.

Benefits in daily life:

1. No waiting in the restaurants:All of us have experienced that going out for dinner on a saturday / sunday evening, one has to wait outside the restaurant

from 10 minutes to 1-2 hours. You keep on waiting, get tired and bored after which you dont feel like eating. And if youhave kids the situation becomes worse. People who eat before sunset dont need to wait for a second as there are very fewpeople who eat before sunset. Also, the service provided regarding the food quality, cleanliness and hygiene is better than theone provided after sunset in all the hassle.

2. Time for family:

If everyone in the family eats before sunset, all the household chores get completed and the women of the house have ampleof time to carry out other activities and give time to their children and other family members.

There are many other benefits and advantages for eating before sunset. And thus, few people have already taken a step in thisfront.

Even if you are one of those who dont believe in religion, there are some great scientific reasons to avoid food at night tostay fit & in shape!

For further reference:1. Yogshastra by Acharya Shri Hemchandra Suriji2. Shradha Vidhi by Acharya Shri Ratnashekar Suriji3. Dharma Sangraha by Upadhyaya Shri Maan Vijayji4. Secrets of Jainism

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