The diet in accordance with the life cycles of Ayurveda
Let's look at how life principles change over the course of the whole human life and how to properly build your diet.
Infant age suggests rapid growth and development, "building material" for which is Kapha. This life principle is responsible for strengthening the skeleton and energy necessary for increasing body weight. With malnutrition, which abounds in mucus products (for example, cow's milk), and especially in combination with the Slizy constitution, the child's body is unable to absorb as much "building material" as is expressed in respiratory diseases with sputum accumulation, inflammation in them a rise in temperature, when the body of the child independently increases the heat to "burn" the infection and excess mucus.