The Early Beginnings of Sugar Addiction
For any observation of human behavior the reasons are multifactorial
So it is with sugar addiction Yes, for sure, there are many reasons that we can envision and of course the reasons vary from individual to individual
Understanding is Key to Prevention
And as we ponder the reasons for addictive behavior which has to lie at the foundational tenets of our obesity epidemic that is our primary societal problem here in the US
From a matter science nutrtional approach there is very little to be said about how the sea of nutritional molecules seem to in some way provoke the human physiology to overeat
Try as it will these behavioral issues are not touched becasue there is little answer found in the science But nevertheless it's a big problem(no pun intended)
Overeating and Energy Science Nutrition
When we get very hungry (so hungry we could eat cardboard) one of the most powerful ways to squelch the screaming appetite is with the sweet taste
The vibrational frequencies of cold, heavy slow/dull, and static counteract those of digestive fire or appetite which are hot, light, sharp/penetrating, and mobile
When the physiologic energy pattern of Pitta is imbalanced the appetite usually becomes intense It screams "Feed me, feed me"
The quickest way we learn how to suppress such an uncomfortable feeling as hunger is to reach for the sweet taste
And since food manufacturers have become adept at making refined sugar products the answer to our hunger woes becomes instantly gratified
At An Early Age
Now we can see the early beginnings of a sugar addiction that then simply becomes a matter of habit
When Junior or Sally became early on Pitta provoked, their youthful appetites began to soar and quite naturally they would reach for...............the sugar fix in whatever form it took
The stage is set The sweet taste especially during childhood is tissue building but the sugar in these formative years is not so deleterious as later in life
So we learn early on in life to squelch our hunger pains with sugar and then create an addiction around it
What to Do?
As we said earlier the key to prevention of a problem is understanding it The energy science can give us this much needed understanding but now that we know what do we do?
Parental guidance is crucial is stopping the refined sugar taste present in cereals and replacing these foods with natural sugares such as honey, sucanat, turbinado, and fruit juice concentrates
Boycotting snack foods rich is disguised sugar content
Schools are beginning to ban snack machines- a significant step in the right direction
Stablizing family eating patterns ensuring that the biggest meal of the day is at noon
If snacks are necessary use natural fruit according to energetic mindbody makeup
Overeating has its underpinnings by overshooting the mark when dealing with a ravenous appetite
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Obesity, Nutritional Dis-ease and Smoking
"Obesity is almost like the new smoking," says Dr. Anne McTiernan, director of the Prevention Center at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "The effect isn't as big for most cancers, but it's so prevalent that it will have a huge impact."
Lifestyle Behaviors: Smoking and Obesity
We've all been around long enough to remember the intial antismoking campaigns that have now become viral in the social community It's definitely not cool to smoke nowadays(no pun intended since energy science wise smoking is hot)
And now it's becoming almost fadish not to be overweight
McTiernan argues that the common denominator disease for the two problematic lifestyle behaviors is cancer; smoking for lung cancer and obesity for multiple cancers
Being overweight and physically inactive may account for 25% to 30% cases of major cancers such as breast and colon cancer, according to estimates
So the new health format in prevention is now being likened to the antismoking campaigns of the 1980's
The National Cancer Institute estimates that smoking accounts for 37.5% cancer deaths in men and 22.8% in women. But smoking does most of its dirty work in lung cancer victims. When lung cancer is taken out of the picture, smoking can only be blamed for 12% of cancer deaths in men and 6% in women — fewer than can be chalked up to excess pounds.
The Energy Science Perspective of Obesity and Cancer
The matter science medical model doesn't know for sure exactly how weight increases cancer risk, but it's likely that it does so in multiple ways, with the precise mechanism differing from cancer to cancer.
High levels of estrogen, insulin, and inflammatory compounds are among the suspects that have been implicated in research to date from a matter science view
From an energy science view the origins of disease are imbalances of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha in a specific organ of the mindbody, eg lung, prostate, breast, liver, pancreas etc
It's the provocation of these energy patterns that leave the GI tract and promote the cancer somewhere in the mindbody
Why the obesity link? Kapha is the energy pattern of stability and when out of balance leads to the increasing mass in the mindbody If excess Pitta is also present, inflammation is added to the imbalance mix and instead of excess Kapha producing a benign mass, it produces a malignant or cancerous one
Energy Science Nutrition Makes More Sense
The energy science view of disease is indeed powerful in answering our epidemiologic matter science questions coming forth from its investigators who are looking for answers
So what to do with the provoked Kapha that leads to congestion manifested in part by weight
Here are some ways:
Create a lifestlyle exercise habit that Kapha can enjoy
Eat according a PK nutritional format
Avoid foods that are incompatable with one another
Use a PK churan
Do one day a week juice fasts
Avoid snacks and ice
Eat your biggest meal at noon
Consider doing kitchari on a regular basis
This is a beginning to improving the health of your energy field!
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Is GI Health Important for Nutrition?
Insanity: doing the same thing over & over again
and expecting different results
Albert Einstein
Said another way, insanity is like walking out the same door and falling in the same hole everyday And the fix is walking out a different door
The Mindbody as a Printout
Every year we get a new mindbody down to the last cell
The message from this is that we make the same unconscious choices regarding our nutrition and lifestyle choice, we get the same printout
Make different choices, different printout
The question is obvious "What kind of choices do I make that are health promoting?"
The Health of the GI Tract
The lifestyle behavioral changes that the energy science talks about are more than what to eat We become so fixated on molecular makeup of the foods ingested we fail to take into account other aspects of gastrointestinal health
The most important aspect of nutriton is the health of the GI tract It's unusual how much is written about the foods ingested, how to prepare them, grow them, organic or not organic
But what about the health of the receiver of foods? We take that for granted somehow believing that our mindbodies are healthy to digest the foods and so just throw it down
Creativity and Lifestyle Behavioral Nutritional Patterns
There are many different ways to assess the health of the GI tract that go beyond the scope of today but simply watching how the function of the gut goes everyday is helpful
One of the easiest ways to help the gut be healthier is to:
Eat foods that do not aggravate the health of the GI tract
Liberal use of spices in the form of churans
These simple yet poorly understood concepts of GI health are foundational to starting the journey toward better bowel health
It takes creativity to make this happen Why creativity? Because in order to make a change in lifestyle behavior whether it's exercise or our nutritional choices it requires a creative shift in the way we regularly do things We have to figure out how we're going to do it and then factor that into our lifestyle way of doing the day
In other words we have to be willing to go out the back door, not the same door that we usually use and falling into the same hole and getting the same printout year after year, decade after decade
And I know that it's possible for everyone of us!!
BTW Happy St Patty's Day
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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The Decline Effect
Recently I have been working with a very anxious elderly who BTW has urinary symptoms and has responded very well to medicated enemas, having failed with the use of many different antianxiety drugs
The Energy Science and Anxiety
The use of basti(meidcated enema) is a time honored energy science method of reducing Vata disturbance which is expressed most commonly through nervous system symptoms
Since the family was at wits end as to what to do for their beloved parent or spouse and the patient was willing, we set off on a course to try to improve the situation
Wow! Three weeks later the patient is like a new person Calm, focused, attentive, less depressed, and engaged
The Decline Effect
Which leads me to question, "What kind of impact were the antianxiety drugs having in the first place?"
Jonah Lehrer in a NY Times article, "The Truth is Wearing Out", is asking questions about the present day validity of matter science research and our vignette today brings up his conccern
In the article he looks in depth at 3 specific areas of pharmaceutical research and comes away puzzled by the fact that scientific reproducibility is not often possible
In science for a drug to reach public access there are many hurdles that have to be surmounted in order to show that it has real relevance for a specific disease label
Molecule Science and Energy Science
In our story there was no effect and there could be some legitimate reasons why there were no drug effects seen in my patient But our situation is no unusual event I would say That the experience is a microcosm of the greater macrocosm
Is the molecule(pharmaceutical) treatment the only treatment or is there room for another science that can shed light on the managment of dis-ease?
I personally don't believe that there is deception going on in but the reality is that the matter science is incomplete in terms of how it sees biologic reality That the matter science model is inadequate for our needs
Public Loss of Confidence in the Matter Science
We know that the nutritional model needs help but there is growing loss of public confidence in its pharma industry as well as manifiested in the Lehrer article
There are many reasons why the nutritional and pharmaceutical model doesn't work One explanation may be that "one size does not fit all" There are different energy pattern makeups and so one pharma solution may not be a good fit for all of them
But another may be that the underlying energy field imbalance is too complex and deeply rooted in, say an elderly person, that the imbalance cannot be superficially treated with a molecular prescription
We need and deserve better in our current continuum of life and the energy science approach to the human biology will help move us in that direction
The model has to change!
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Causes of Heartburn and Nutritional Treatments
It's called many different things but heartburn is a common problem and the current matter science way of dealing with it is a pill
What We Call It
Although difficult to know for sure I would guesstimate that at least a third to half of us suffer from heartburn from my vantage point in the office
It goes by different terms: acid indigestion; sometimes as a misnomer, indigestion; thought to be associated with an infection (H pylori); and when symptoms are over the top, gastroesophageal reflux dis-ease(GERD) But the bottom line is from a matter science view it is not handled very well
Tums and rolaids, baking soda, over the counter acid relief pills, and if pushed to the brink, prescribed pharmaceuticals from the doctor
What About Foods?
But what is surprising to me in the midst of this treatment mileau is the lack of any suggestion that foods produce the problem Too simple, I guess
Say again Foods as a problem? What the hay! NO Way! How could that be?
If foods are the culprit, it's a well kept secret that gastroeneterologists keep from their patients because I don't see any of them discussing nutrition with them where I practice
Too Much Hot
The energy science nutritional model has a lot to say about how foods produce dis-ease As a matter of fact all our choices lead to unarguable and eventual physiologic dis-ease
In previous blogs we have talked about the inevitable consequence of too much of the quality of hot in foods ingested This provocation done month after month, year after year, decade after decade leads to the symptom of the matter science label of acid indigestion
The matter science states that excess acidity(who knows why) begins to break down the bowel mucosa producing an inflammatory reaction which results in pain and over time to reflux of acid from the stomach up the esophagus and into the throat
Some Have It and Don't Know It
Because of their abundant protective mucous predominant Kapha people may not experience the symptoms of acidity but eventually they break through
The key here is that most everyone not following an energy science nutritional format for their mindbody makeup is provoked even though not symptomatic
Nutritional Treatments
There are several options
Do your standard nutritional format at foodsheal.com
Use aloe vera gel(NOT the juice) 2T 2-3 times per day for at least 6 to 12 months Longer if you have had symptoms for more than 5 years
Add peppermint extract to make 2-3oz of water very minty(if it burns when you use it, it's too minty and should dilute it more)
Stay away from poor food combining
Use only cooling spices(see the YES column)
Stop using hot spices until symptoms get better(those in the moderation column)
Focus attention and try to stay in the YES column
BTW tell your doctor when you start feeling better He might appreciate it!
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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