It is often said that one should eat three meals a day. A good diet should consist of at least 30 kinds of food daily; however, these recommendations do not apply to the Hie-Tori.
The basic ideas of Hie-Tori are to live on plain food, to avoid overeating and to eliminate waste matter from the body. If you do not have an active metabolism, it is not good to eat large meals a few times a day. Instead, when you feel hungry, it is a good time to eat. The more you eat, the more you accumulate wastes that need to be discharged from your body. If your body’s metabolism is not active enough to discharge the toxins that build up in your body, such a condition is sure to cause illness.

Oriental health traditions recommend that you only eat to fill 80% of your stomach during any given meal in order to avoid overeating. The idea of Hie-Tori suggests that you eat even less than 80% unless you chew enough. Dr. Shindo suggests that you chew 30 times with each small bite, and do not swallow the food until flows down your throat naturally. Because we do not feel full until 30minutes after we start eating, eating too fast leads you to overeat. You should never over eat. The stomach also needs to take a rest sometimes. After our stomach has had a good rest, it will work more actively.
However, regardless of what your meals consist of, it is the attitude of Hie-Tori to express sincere thanks at every meal.

Regions and symptoms where the poisonous waste of overeating are appeared.