Archive for the ‘Nutrition’ Category
We all want to be healthy, or at least feel healthy. But why can two people do the same exercises, eat the same foods, have similar lifestyles and one be healthy and the other not? Some would say it is their genes and that has something to do with it but there is another major contributor; the persons blood type. In Dr. Peter J D’Adamo’s book Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight,
Have you heard all the success so many people have with the low carbohydrate, high protein diet, but when you try the diet you don’t lose much weight? That is because a low-carb, high-protein diet is the optimal diet for Type O blood (which is the most common blood type) and if you happen to have Type A blood that high protein diet will kill you. Type A does great with a vegetarian diet.
According to Dr. D’Adamo, Type O is the oldest blood type. It is the blood type of the hunter-gatherer and what did they eat and thrive on? Meat, poultry and fish along with nuts, berries and any wild edible plants they could find. The hunter-gatherer did not have dairy products or much in the way of grains.
Type A evolved out of Type O. These ancestors were less warlike and more settled than their Type O predecessors. Theses are the first farmers so Type A’s do well with a vegetarian diet. If you are a Type A, sticking to a diet high in vegetables, soy and pineapple but low- or no-meat, dairy, wheat and beans will cause the weight to slide off. If you grow it in your home garden, you can most likely eat it whereas a Type O could only eat the items that would naturally grow wild.
The next blood type to develop was Type B. These were the nomads and thrive on a more balanced diet. Type B is a balancing of the A and O types. Corn, buckwheat, lentils, peanuts and sesame seeds will cause a Type B to gain weight. Gee, I wish I was Type B it is a lot easier to avoid those items than all the grains a type O can’t eat. If you are a Type B and have trouble with your blood sugar levels – USE THIS DIET!
The last blood type is Type AB. This type has been around for less than a thousand years! It is the rarest of the blood types with only about 2 to 5 percent of the population having it. This is a complicated blood type. Type AB needs to avoid the foods that are bad for both Type A and Type B with a few exceptions such as tomatoes.
The book has a section for each blood type; explaining the best diet, with suggested meal plans and recipes. I have tried a number of the recipes and they have been excellent! Each blood type has a listing of foods that are categorized into meats, seafood, dairy, oils, etc. and then the foods in each category are divided into highly beneficial, neutral and “avoids”.
Being a Type O, I have found that when I stick with my high protein, low carb diet, it is easier to keep the weight off — and I feel better.
Last Monday I wrote about nutrition. I wish to pick up that theme again. The body knows what it needs. If you pay attention really listen or feel. There have been times I was hungry and my first inclination would be to eat a cookie. But then I really thought about it and felt my body and imagined what it would feel like after eating the cookie. Then I knew I would still be hungry or maybe even feel a little yucky afterwards. I would then go through my pantry and refrigerator and ask myself do I want crackers, some cereal or an apple? Then I would see the V-8 and get an ah-ha that is it. I am not always so vegetable/fruit conscious sometime I really feel that I need a Coke.
Consistently craving something is different. Often we crave what will make us sick. There are emotional reasons behind cravings. Sometimes we are in an unconscious punishment phase and we crave the things that will backfire on us. We see the food as a way of reinforcing such thoughts as “I’m not good enough” or “I’m not worth feeling healthy”. Some times we use certain foods to make us feel good because those were foods that were served during good times or special occasions when we were little: cake at birthdays, pies at family reunions, fried chicken at Sunday afternoon get-togethers.
Note the reason certain foods are comfort foods for you. It will be easier to lose weight if you know why you eat what you do.
What do we really need to eat? We hear so many things about what to eat and what not to eat. The food pyramid keeps changing according to who is spending the most on lobbyists in Washington. What is a person to believe? I have a friend who was a nutritionist, counseling people on their diets. She told me she had clients who would follow her instructions to the letter and not get better or even get worse! Then there would be those who would eat whatever they darn well pleased and would improve! She finally left the field when the ‘standards’ kept changing every year.
The body breaks foods down into usable forms for the body. Carbohydrates break down into glucose, fructose and galactose which are used as energy or stored as fat. Lipids (fats) break down into monoglycerides and fatty acids. Proteins break down into peptides and amino acids. Then there are vitamins, minerals and water that the body uses. That is it. The slice of cake breaks down just as the rice cake does. The Turkey breaks down just as the roast beef. The butter and the Crisco both breakdown. What is all the hoopla about? What is going on?
I have seen overly obese people who could gain weight on a liquid diet. Then there are those who can eat a $100 worth of groceries every week and not gain a pound.
What I see going on is that no one is taking emotions into consideration. Our emotions control more than the average person realizes. The grossly overweight person who gains weight no matter what diet they go on may very well have an issue about protection. That layer of fat is there to protect them. No way are they going to lose that. The real issue has to be addressed. What exactly do they need protection from? It may be childhood issues of abuse or it may be a bad marriage. It is interesting that the few lesbians (two couples and a single). I have known were all fat and came out of abusive heterosexual relationships.
If you are trying to lose weight and not succeeding, make an appointment at www.naturallyresilient.com and eliminate your emotional issues so you can finally shed those pounds.
What is all of this I have been hearing about aspartame?
Did you know it has toxic long-term effects? Aspartame has the same symptoms as Methanol poisoning! Did you know it is often a hidden ingredient in many pharmaceutical drugs?
This came across my e-mail and I listened to the whole 1:29:54 of it. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/06/sweet-misery-a-poisoned-world-you-can-finally-view-free-online.aspx
Very eye opening. A short synopsis of what I got from it follows:
A drug company was trying to find an ulcer drug when the chemist splashed some on his hand and licked it (brave chemist, one of the first rules I learned in chemistry class what not to put anything in your mouth) and it tasted sweet. This led to the idea that it may be a good diet substitute for sugar.
Testing was done for Aspartame but it was botched, several times. In one experiment the feed for the mice were mixed up and the test group and the control group were both fed the aspartame and both came down with brain tumors – test results recorded was that Aspartame was no different than the control group. (Brain tumors in any animal are not a normal condition). Another botched test was when the Aspartame was not finely ground up before being mixed with the feed. The animals just ate around it, kind of like trying to trick a cat with a pill in the food. These animals did not experience any side effects so this test was used.
It is also very fishy when the testing is done solely by a company that has a financial interest in the outcome. When is the FDA going to wake up and actually do their job? Many of the FDA workers involved in getting this “drug” approved for consumption are now working in the Soda and Drink industry.
Some of the side effects of Aspartame.
Seizures – Outside testing using monkeys had many with Grand Mal Seizures and one died.
Brain Tumors – The animals used for testing developed brain tumors. In the ‘official’ test many of these animals were preserved and looked at a year later after their tissue had turned to mush so nothing was seen, others had the tumors physically cut out before presenting for proof of acceptance. (How many people do you know who have developed brain cancer? I know quit a few).
Other problems that the Center for Disease Control investigations found cardiac arrest, seizures, liver problems, mood alterations, deaths. However the Center for Disease Control is so embarrassed (that they are unwilling to stand up to the commercial companies and the FDA) they only list a ‘summary’ on their website not the full 147 page report which can be found at www.dorway.com.
FDA has developed the attitude of approving things now and letting the people prove it is bad latter.
On a more personal aside, my husband use to drink diet cokes a lot. He quit when he linked the diet drink with his eye and leg muscle twitches, tinnitus and several other problems including the inability to loose weight (you don’t see a thin person drinking a diet drink).
I realized this morning that the “Slim Fast” I like for breakfast has aspartame so this is the last batch of that I will buy.
What Nutrients are our Foods Really Missing
Posted by: Ann
June 19th, 2009 >> Nutrition, Uncategorized
Why is our food supply “suddenly” less nutritious than it use to be? We have been farming for thousands of years. Some areas in Europe have the same plots plowed up for hundreds of years. Why is it now that our crops suddenly have lost nutritional value? For the last hundred years we have even developed new farming techniques that are suppose to help preserve the soil, what is going on?
I think we are looking at the wrong area. I would like to see a nutritional study between crops grown on large US corporate farms and served in fast-food restaurant and crops grown on small family plots in China where the food is prepared at home and served to the Family. The one ingredient that is missing in our mass produced, hurry up and eat food is love.
Every thing carries a vibration: all foods, all emotions. Vibrations mix and can be beneficial to each other or detrimental. Crops grown in a family plot are grown with love and tender care, knowing that the fruit will be feed to family and friends. When the food is prepared in the home environment, it is prepared with love and maybe excitement. What do you get when you go to “Fast and Quick Bar-B-Q” down the street? You get meat that was butchered by a person that may have no concern for the animal, it is just a job. You get coleslaw and beans made with vegetables grown on large corporate farms where hired hands drive large machines through the fields in air-conditioned comfort with music and sometimes TVs blaring, distancing them from the crops below. You get cooks at the restaurant who have to make the same recipe day after day with no creativity and no direct contact with the ones who eat the food. Many of the people working at the restaurant are making minimum wages and are often not in the best emotional state (stressed, bored, angry, annoyed, bitter, discontented, frustrated, worried etc) and the vibration from these emotions goes directly into your food!
The vibrations of love, peace and joy also just makes food taste better. That is why the homegrown tomatoes taste so much better than the ones bought from the grocery store that were strip-mined in Texas.