What’s More Important? Number or Quality of Calories
Present day everything gets measured How many miles per gallon, how much per item at the store, how many cups of flour, how polluted is the air today
In the biologic matter(molecular) science model everything is measured and it is mechanical(kidneys are filters) we want everything to be quantified There is great reassurance for us that we have taken in so many milligrams of vitamin C or ingested so many calories Blood tests by measurement tell us whether we are healthy or not?
But how is it that we can gain weight and yet calorie count is low?
And There Is Nothing Wrong With Measurement
Tried and true This is how we live And there is a monitoring process that gets aided by measurement
If we determine a size of a urinary stone too large to pass easily then that is helpful for decision making in the management of the problem If the PSA is too high then surgery is not a good option If the estrogen receptors are too high then that helps in management If we work out at the local gym and record what we did 3 weeks ago then we know we are making progress and can increase our weight training schedule
There are some who have advocated not measuring so much and just living But there is value in lifestyle guidelines and structure which measurement gives us
But Measurement to Excess
From an energy science nutritional view some measurements may not be helpful and actually may interfere with our lifestyle decision making causing us to make poor assumptions particularly about food
For example, we determine that raw tomatoes are a low calorie vegetable food that would be good to use in our diet to lose weight But if we find that they are physiologically imbalancing(which they are), then they have the capability of causing weight gain even though they are low calorie Holy Smoke!! can this be true? From an energy science view it is but from the reliable quantifiable matter science calorie counting view it is not
It's Not the Number of Calories, It's the Quality of the Calories
Traditions such as calorie counting die hard especially in a quantifiable culture But there are times when there are better ways of doing things
The energy science of Ayurveda is a qualitative discipline and sets itself apart from the matter science discipline presently dominant in world view Because of this its way of doing its science is different but not invalid
From personal experience eating a nutritional format that is appropriate for my mindbody energy makeup allows me to eat without the necessity of quantifying our nutritional intake Why? Because when I eat for balancing my physiology and not for calorie counting my mindbody becomes fine tuned and healthy The mindbody's inherent desire is to be in balance and nutrition is a primary way of helping us achieve it
Until next time To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
