Natural Health Tip – Eating InflationBy Gary Scott One way to fight inflation by the way is also good for your health. This is to simply eat more simply and eat less. Good nutrition is a vital part of good health. But what nutritionally is right? Having lived around the globe, I have learned so many schools of thought on nutrition (starting with McDonald's my primary food provider when in high school and I’m still paying for that bad habit) to shamanic Andean nutritional routines., that my head spins when I think about it. Plus Merri and I are enrolled in a doctorate degree program (not for the degree but the knowledge) on holistic nutrition. Program for Health The problem is, the more one reads, the more the experts seem to contradict themselves! Some say eat raw, others only cooked. Some say something is good others bad and the list of conflicts goes on and on. Many of them are right, but the crunch is they are only right part of the time, or in some instances or only if an entire program is followed. And of course, most of them don’t take into account body types, which for us is of utmost importance. Merri's and my program for health falls into three categories-nutrition, exercise, consciousness and purification. The three parts are so intertwined that one cannot look at any one of them totally alone. These categories wrap around themselves in every material and consciousness aspect of health. For example, what we watch on TV is a consciousness aspect of nutrition. Our entire being has to digest what we watch, see and hear. So what we see is a type of nutrition. What we see, hear, smell, feel and taste as we eat (and even before a meal) also impacts the digestion of food. Digestion works with every sense and affects the nutrition we receive. So let’s look today at one of the simple rules of nutrition that almost all the systems I have blundered across agree on. Rule #1 is the Secret of Aging. Do not eat too much! This sounds so simple but the fact is almost every diet book in the world tiptoes around this simple fact. Many claim you can eat as much as you want on a diet. Rubbish. The only way that scientific research has ever shown to live a longer life is by cutting back calories. Biologist Siegfried Hekimi learned how to lengthen the average lifespan of tiny transparent worms from 15 to 20 days (the equivalent of increasing a human lifespan from 75 to 100) and confirmed what many scientific studies have found. There is a link between metabolism and lifespan. Eating less can slow the metabolism down. Our Andean shaman stressed this fact in many ways. I once asked him his most important rule for nutrition. “Eat only on an empty stomach,” was his reply. This is hard to do if you eat too much. Your blood sugar rockets (from all the food). This causes your adrenalin to kick in to keep the blood sugar in balance. This causes the blood sugar to plummet. This makes you hungry way before the body has had a chance to digest its meal. There are more reasons. The body is very adept at confirming to our circumstances by creating habits. We eat a lot and the stomach is stretched. The body worries about this and grows the stomach. The bigger stomach instills the habit for more food to fill it. Habits are hard to break except because we are subject to the law of diminishing returns, we want to eat more and more and more. That’s a universal rule. Let’s look at some specifics. The Andean nutritional system keeps a good fat, protein carbohydrate balance. The Andeans also do not mix sweet with salt. They avoid fermented foods and divide foods into three group: sweet, savory and neutral. You can mix sweet and neutral or salt and neutral but not sweet and savory. Melon and pineapple are only eaten alone. The Shamanic way is to have light sweet meals morning and evening and full savory meal at noon. Since we are about to have our ayurvedic cleansing course here this weekend, let’s look at some specific nutritional rules from ayurved. Onions and garlic are avoided. Ayurved avoids the nightshade family (potato, tomato, eggplant, bell pepper). Ayurved does not allow soy products or derivatives or soy anything. The big ayurvedic meal of the day is also at noon. Good foods eaten often include small green Thai chilis, and ginger, lots of it. Mangos and asparagus are very popular. The food is rich with flavors. They cook with masala, (other words know as curry powder) but not the stuff you buy in the store. A ayurvedic masala would included real organic turmeric and various other spices. Ayurved uses lots of raw milk (boiled) and ghee (clarified butter) plus berries of all types: blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries. Join us for our summer health special. A clean body and clear mind are the most valuable inflation fighters we can enjoy. You do not want to be caught with growing medical costs during times of inflation. These costs can ruin your financial affairs. This is why Merri and I spend weeks in health routines. They dramatically improve our health and increase our energy. We had such success with Dr. Mishra’s weekend health course that we asked Dr. Terry Hambrick to condense his one week August course to a long weekend instead. Terry’s course promises to be special because it will focus on balancing your pH balance while you are here and then show you how to keep it balanced! Balancing pH on a regular basis is vital because it is a really easy way to monitor our health and to optimize our health on a daily basis. Your pH balance is an index of the total health of the body. When the pH is too high or too low, it can lead to disease. At the course, you'll learn about the life force energy that is the ultimate "balancing factor" of the body and how a balanced pH has far-reaching consequences on mental, emotional and spiritual health. To enroll or for more details contact Merri at merri@littlehorsecreek.com Join us and enjoy the summer flowers. Here I am on Little Horse Creek picking Bee Balm (Bergemot, the red flower on the lower right of the picture). This makes a wonderful and healthy tea you will experience with us in the summer!
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