Digestive Fire: The Obesity Problem and Ginger Pickle

Obesity

A recent article on obesity in the Atlantic points to the frustration that we as a technological society are being confronted  Nobody in the weight treatment industry buys into the calorie balance theory(excess calories in and not enough out = weight gain) these days since it's been shown to be ineffective as a solution to the problem  But if that fails what else can we measure to find a solution to this pandemic problem

A now popular obesogen theory which the article talks about describes three groups of food additives that are correlated with obesity  Fructose causes us to eat more than we need; BPA(bisphenol A) causes changes in fat metabolism(more about that later); and organotins cause the increase in number and size of fat cells

Can We Continue To Blame Molecules?

It's indeed true that the study of the molecules and their effects is the current way we do science  Another way to describe this approach is as a system of measurement  If measuring calories is not helpful perhaps a better approach would be to identify molecules that have ill effects

This quantitative nutritional approach that is used in present day practiced medicine has great advantages in healing  Ask any person who has had a brush with cancer and been cured by surgery

But the discipline has an Achilles heal  It doesn't offer us a system of disease prevention  And that's what the obesity pandemic is all about  It's a disease that can be prevented but unfortunately we are asking the quantitative model to deal with a problem that is beyond its capability

Origins of Disease

One of the greatest gifts that energy science medical and nutritional model from the Ayurvedic tradition gives us is that of prevention  The reason for this is actually quite simple  The model is based on the origins of disease 

The contemporary matter science or quantitative(molecular) nutritional approach looks for the origins of disease in the measurement of calories or molecules that seem to fit the bill for the reason for disease  It's taking pot shots at various aspects of reality and saying "There that's the problem molecule"

The qualitative approach to disease takes us to the place where decisions are being made that begin to tweak the physiology and start the downward spiral that eventuates into disease such as obesity

Another significant gift of the energy science is our understanding of metabolism and its role in disease particularly in such problems as obesity

The Metabolic Fire and Its Role in Obesity

Slow metabolism has been an oft overlooked aspect in the obesity problem since the quantitative science doesn't know where to put it  But it's an oft described aspect of the obese person's life "I just look at food and gain weight"   As a way to study slow metabolism BMR(basal metabolic rate) has been used in the quantitative nutritional science

Nonetheless it is indeed the case that digestion can becomes so sluggish that there is no possibility to lose even with small amounts of caloric intake  One of the easiest ways to lose weight is by exercise  And interestingly exercise enhances digestive fire or metabolic rate from an energy science perspective

Besides exercise here are other ways to stoke that digestive fire(DF) or metabolism

                   Avoid foods that put the fire out

                  Avoid incompatible food combinations

                  Use spices that will stoke the digestive fire

                  Use ginger pickle before each meal made with slice of ginger lime and salt  This will kindle DF
Just try one of these suggestions for 6 weeks and you'll be amazed at the results

Until next time                                                          To health as a Skill  Love DrBill

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