Mental Clarity and Nutrition
My wife was telling me a story about her friend, Cheryl(not real name) who see meets for "weigh in" every so often. My wife who is a PV cannot gain weight and Cheryl, a KP, gains looking at food. So the humor is the fact that the weights never change but they still put money in the "kitty" to reward themselves for staying the same weight.
So Cheryl is driving a friend's car and notices four Oreo cookies. She doesn't want the Oreos but somehow they are calling her name.
"Cheryl, Cheryl, Cheryl," they beckon her to reach over and snarf all four down.
"Oh great, now I've done it!", Cheryl relates in self disgust.
Now here's the interesting observation. After Cheryl is telling my wife about the subversive nature of the Oreo cookie, she relates the energetic consequence of the consumption.
"You know, I feel foggy now. It's like I don't have as much clarity in my thinking."
When we self medicate our excessive thought processing with the sweet taste, it brings about the qualities of heavy, cold, static, oily, smooth gross, and pertinent for our conversation today, cloudy and slow/dull.
This mental fogginess that Cheryl describes is an observation that we have had with other patients who describe similar effects with the use of refined sugar. And it completely makes sense due to the energetic qualities associated with the sweet taste.
So far in this blog we have talked about the way foods use us energetically:
Self medication with foods to reduce anxiety(sweet sour salty) depression(all tastes)
Addictive nature of foods due to our need to reduce psychological turmoil
Physiological consequences of foods such as increased appetite or slow/dull, mental cloudiness.
So the dictum goes, food is medicine and medicine is food.
We will gain greater mental clarity when we stop the sweet taste.
For more information as to what in the diet constitutes the sweet taste go to foodsheal.com
To health as a skill Love DrBill
