Gandhi and Good health.
When we talk about Gandhi, in our minds we picture an old, bald, skeletal man, with round spectacles, wearing a white dhoti woven of khadi and holding a dandhi, which towers above his height. We do, as a matter of fact, remember Gandhi at his most emaciated, weak and skinny from weeks of fasting and walking for kilometers at a stretch. We know him to have pushed his body to physical extremes, to bring an end to Britain's unjust occupation of India. The question that often bothers us is that, how could one go fasting for weeks; walk more than sixteen kilometers a day at a stretch, and manage to bring freedom to our country by Ahimsa? "It is health that is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver." - Gandhi Gandhi was wise in matters relating to health and fitness. Health means body at ease, and his health mostly relied upon what he ate. We know Gandhi to be from a Gujarati family, wherein his diet was of a typical vegetarian. We might say that Gandhi, belon...