Leisure Food
“For diet, conventional wisdom often recommends ‘everything in moderation,’ with a focus only on total calories consumed,” says Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and lead author of the study. “Our results demonstrate that the quality of the diet — the types of food and beverages that one consumes — is strongly linked to weight gain.”
This most recent nutritional study brings up for us some food for thought(no pun intended)
Leisure Food
There are foods that we use as comfort or snack foods that come up for many in the process of daily activities that create a sense of equanimity From an energy science view these foods will promote the sweet, sour, and salty tastes as they reduce the Vata energy pattern
As we have talked about earlier these foods calm the physiology but for those people who have prominent Kapha mindbody energy pattern, these foods will produce weight gain in a hurry since the same sweet, sour, and salty tastes provoke Kapha producing congestion
Matter Science Nutrition
The Harvard epidemiolgical and nutritional study on the use of potato chips and carbonated drinks as they are related to weight gain comes up with no real suprise to us
There is the typical quantitative matter science ho-hum measurement issue that is replete in the nutritional information these days Calorie laden data points to make the point that potato chips and carbonated drinks lead to weight gain Yawn, tell me something new
But.....
Nutritional Medical High Priests Are On To Something
What seems to be most interesting about this article is that for the first time the word "quality" is now entering the nutritional vernacular Calorie quality versus calorie quantity
Now not to say that such thinking suggests a change in the matter science nutritional establishment's way of doing things But it does suggest researchers are now thinking that the quality of foods is important
The Basis of Energy Science Nutrition: Quality
The fundamental difference between the matter and energy science disciplines is that one deals with the quantitative(measurement in calories) and the energy science deals in the qualitative(energetically what are the tastes)
Taste patterns are composed of fundamental vibrational frequencies and are 10 basic pairs(hot/cold, soft/hard, gross/subtle, dry/rough etc) These vibrational frequencies are the footprints of the subtle biological energy field So the hot quality of sour and salty balance the cold of Vata producing calm in the mindbody physiology
Nutritional Self Medication
Seeing the mindbody as a vibrational energy field as well as the foods that we take in gives us an insight as to how foods can become medicine
Whether we consciously understand it or not, we self medicate with foods The mindbody is searching for food that when ingested medicates the physiology to give it a sense of peace and tranquility in the apparent buffeting outside reality indicative of our above research study
To those who consciously chose foods according to their mindbody makeup, hats off to you for you represent less than 1% of the world's population
For those who don't, perhaps consider this food for thought(pun intended)
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This brings up the issue of calorie quality vs. calorie quantity:
