Recently I hapened to read a mail where there was listed 10 strict No-Nos after you have a meal.No smoking,No lying down,No aerated drinks(cola shola),not even cold water,no tea,no alcohol,no brief walks,no fruits,(the funniest one) no lightening of belt,no this no that.I was amazed to see that I indulge in around 8 or 9 of these activities(I am sure they studied some people exactly like me) and am still pretty much hale and hearty.Well going by the impressive "scientific reasons " provided for every don't by them I should have been either dead or handicapped by loss of kidney or liver or God knows what.So I said to myself let's give it a try and I tried to weigh out the pros and cons.These are my conclusions.
A nice hot plate of Hyderabadi Chicken Biriyani never tastes the same without the customary accompaniment of Sprite/Coke.
Sunday Afternoons are never the same if I don't take that 2 hours nap (which I miss the whole week) after nice home cooked lunch.
When it's cold or raining outside and I am all set to dig into steaming Pakoras the meal is never quite over till I have had the tea/coffee.
In summers when I have juicy mangoes substituting for deserts I can hardly wait for my main course to get over so that I can devour them.

I could go on.

So what should we really make out of these "Valuable" Dos and Don'ts that we are bombarded with so regularly these days.First it used to be about what should (or rather shouldn't be which actually encompasses almost 90% of what we eat.) in your meal and now what you should do after a meal. won't be surprised if some research scholar come out with some on how to prepare for a meal and I am not talking about the cooking part of it.