Sweetness and Acid Indigestion
If we're really hungry, so hungry that we'll just about eat anything, there is nothing better than the sweet taste Reach for the Snickers or any refined sugar and whew! relief
Some of us may not have experienced this kind of appetite but I bring this up because from an energy science nutritional view it shows how the qualities of hot and cold work
Hot and Hungry
The appetite carries the hot quality When we get hungry from an energy science view our GI tract is hot and ready for the experience of food and the mindbody says, "Feed me, feed me!"
If the mindbody and the GI tract is more in balance, there is not this raging appetite that can't wait but when the Pitta energy pattern is out of balance, the hot appetite is the result
This qualitative or energetic expression of appetite can be quite helpful for some when confronted with trying to curb appetite that gets out of control and results in overeating
The Cold of Sweetness
As I said earlier our ally to this hot quality is the vibrational frequency pattern of sweet
This is because this pattern has the cold quality This counteracts the hot and calms the mindbody physiology
The sweet taste is found in dairy, lean meats, grains, and unrefined sugars such as turbinado and sucanat
Foods as Medications
When the excess hot quality becomes over the top in the GI tract symptoms such as diarrhea, hemmorrhoids, and acid indigestion with gastroesophageal reflux can occur
A recent study from a gastroenterology unit in France recently reported that surgery and pills were equally effective in dealing with gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD)
That's a nice observation but my question is, "What about staying away from the hot quality carried by foods that have the sour and salty tastes and continually provoke the stomach in the first place?"
Misled By an Incomplete Biological Model
If we continue believing that we are a collection of molecules then we will come up with such studies that deliver mechanical or pharma solutions for our problems
But if we entertan a more complete way of seeing ourselves as energy fields as well, then we can consider the above solution to GERD, namely staying away from the complex energy patterns of sour and salty
What To Do?
We can go a long way toward creating a healthier GI tract by choosing foods that bring us balance
Whether we experience GERD really doesn't matter The challenge for all of us as we move through life is to cultivate balance
And the primary way to do that or turn things around is to choose foods that are supportive of our mindbody makeups by going to foodsheal.com
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Healing Foods
Foods are healing, no doubt
I think we have heard of some Cranberry juice for urinary tract infections, tomatoes for prostate health, whole grain bread for fiber, Starbucks for a pick me up, energy drinks for pep, and fast food, quick easy, and dependable
Now some of these choices are considered healing but is that based on nutritional myths or sound science?
But let's consider the present science of nutrition
Contemporary View of Foods
From a molecular or matter science way of viewing nutrition foods are less important than the "healing molecules"that foods bring based on a present biochemical understanding of the mindbody
But as our cartoon suggests we have separated foods from molecules and by our consumer spending says that taking molecules(supplements, vitamins, etc) is more important than the foods ingested
This has catapulted the US supplemental industry expenditure in excess of $3 billion per year
What Happened To Foods?
Not only supplements but now drinks containing specfic formulae to ensure that we have adequate nutritional molecular support are working on the consumer dollar as well
While the matter science nutritional format is helpful in identifying molecules its approach is tending to sever our relationship to foods consumed
And the danger in such an approach is that we continue to eat foods that are not balancing for us and subliminally believe that the molecules will augment whatever we don't get in our nutrition
This begs the question then, "What foods are best for us?"
Using a Different Scientific Approach to Nutrition
As we have discussed in the past there is a different way of seeing ourselves and the world we live in
We can see ourselves as matter fields or energy fields As the former we use our current nutritional molecular information With the latter we see ourselves and the foods we consume in terms of qualities that support us or bring about imbalance which eventually leads to disease
To restrict ourselves to just one way of viewing the mindbody when it is both an energy and matter field is to limit our ability to understand and heal it
An Energy Science Nutritional Approach
Changing our biological model to include an energy science approach to nutrition will go a long way to helping us see the healing value of foods
My friends, real healing doesn't occur with adding more molecules!!
This approach educates us in understanding which foods are uniquely tailored to our mindbody energy makeups
It shows us that cranberries and tomatoes are often not good for us and if we do use them they should be used in moderation It tells us that coffee and energy drinks are not good for us And it shows us that fast foods can be medicinal for perhaps 20-30% of us but the rest of us could do without the ease and dependability
So are there healing foods? From an energy science view it depends on who you are
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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The Roundabout
You may have heard or experienced the traffic device called the roundabout
Popular in Europe and worldover they are being used in the States now and they periodically show up in our communities as in mine over the last 5 years
Direction of Flow
The interesting thing about roundabouts is the guidance they provide for drivers to direct traffic
But there is no person hired by the city to do this guidance It's done by us!
We ourselves provide guidance for ourselves And we do it very efficiently
As a matter of fact there have even been mathematical models studying how the circular aspect of the roundabout creates a highly efficient distribution device for traffic control
There are no crashes or irritability, just smooooth polite merging and managing the flow of our vehicle movements
Health and the Energy Science Medicine Roundabout
As I was driving today and experiencing the marvels of the roundabout near my house, it occurred to me that energy science medicine acts like a roundabout
We put ourselves into the flow of suggested lifestyle behaviors(our own internal roundabout) and the traffic flow of biological energy is redirected spontaneously
The doctor didn't direct it The therapist didn't direct it The dentist didn't direct it We direct it effortlessly We just have to get out of the way and not interfere with the flow
Even though herbs are potent redirectors of biological energy flow patterns, in the end the lifestyle choices that we make effect the biological energy flow the most
As we have this biological roundabout energy flow experience, something quite magical begins to happen
Our health improves
Health Redefined
Health is not something we hope for, it's something we work at like any skill
The question then is obvious What is necessary to hone our skill To make the roundabout work better for us
Nutrition is a fundamental pattern of behavior that we can use Sleep patterns and exercise are others
As we improve our health we find a very startling thing That health is evolutionary and that it is infinite There is no end to it
And as we get healthier another insight We find that in higher states of health it's not just the mindbody, we become more aware
Amazing! Just by improving our roundabout
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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The Great Buffet in the Sky
A patient came in the other day to tell me a story about his experience with his friend, the tomato
The Tomato Exposed
After having had a delicious spaghetti with red sauce dinner, he related that all his symptoms he was seeing me for came back within two hours
This is not an uncommon scenario in the past years and underscores the energetic imbalances imposed by specific foods if they bring about imbalance in the physiology
But in reality the tomato is just the tip of the iceberg Unfortunately it's our relationship with many foods that don't energetically match with us
The Great Buffet in The Sky
If there was a buffet somewhere in cyberspace where you and I could go where all the foods known to man were represented in all the combinations that humans have concocted to generate taste thrills, all of it would not be available to youffrom an energy science nutritional view
If we were eating according to our energy mindbody makeup(some have used the blood type diet for guidance as well) there would be foods that we would avoid
This seems tragic doesn't it? Here we have all these delectable taste thrills and yet they are unavailable to our taster What a shame It seems so unfair, doesn't it?
Guidance Not Denial
You see, it's not about denial of these foods to our taster as much as it is to notice from an energetic viewpoint what they do to us
That is, how do they make us feel We obviously don't want to feel bad
The energy approach to nutrition, telling us which foods and food combinations are to be avoided is to give us insight that certain foods make us feel bad
In the end if we went to the great buffet in the sky, when we are eating according to our energy patterns, we would choose those foods which harmonize with our energy physiologies and stay away from those that don't
Going to foodsheal.com will give you a leg up on how to feel better
Bon appetit!!
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Spices as Digestants
Food is considered medicine So said Hippocrates, one of the four founding fathers of the current matter science tradition practiced today
As a matter of fact the energy science medical discipline relates that there is nothing on the planet that doesn't have medicinal value in small amounts
Spices as Concentrated Food
Foods such as spices are largely misunderstood since they are viewed as foods that make foods taste better or improve the interest of food
But spices are very important from a digestive point of view They enhance digestive fire that helps our overall digestion, absorption, and elimination of the foods that we take in
Hence spices augment our digestive fire and support us and our health That's why the liberal use of spices is so vital to our individual health
Special Effects of Spices
Spices such as cumin, coriander, fennel, mint, fresh basil and ginger, cinnamon, and tumeric enhance digestion by increasing the power of the digestive enzyme system but are unusual in that they don't heat the mindbody at the same time
This is a very important aspect to these cooling digestants because if the mindbody is overly provoked with inflammatory conditions such as joint disease, acid indigestion, cancer then using provoking heating spices would be problematic
All the other spices fall into the category of improving digestive fire but also heating the mindbody as well These can be very helpful during the winter time when its cold and not during the summer As we can see from the above this can be provoking and make things worse seasonally
Spices As Medicines
The proper use of spices doesn't have to be difficult At foodsheal.com there is a section on churans or spice combinations that can give us some guidance to help improve the function of the GI tract and its enzyme system that collectively we call digestive fire
The spice combinations are safe and don't overly heat up the mindbody, help with digestive fire, and balance the digestive process
They can also help with problems such as bloating, indigestion, diarrhea, and other systemic mindbody problems outside the GI tract This information is beyond the scope of this text but you get the idea that spices as a category of foods have a broad range of application
The Use of a Churan
Churan means a collection of spices and can be used as condiments at the dining room table like salt and pepper is commonly used The type of churan should be based on an individual's mindbody energy makeup
Once we've established the appropriate churan to use cooking with it can be very helpful for digestion and typically because it carries all 6 tastes doesn't usually carry a strong flavor but blends very well It's like white light
Now we can take anywhere once made and use it at restaurants or out of home cooking
Enjoy!!
All the best To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Invisible Nutrition
Molecules even though we can't see them are measurable Our low cholesterol is reassuringly healthy The biological way we do our matter science healing is satisfying enough
When we measure the protein, fat, and carbohydrates in our foods consumed we are reassured that we are maximizing healthy nutrition
But nowadays it seems that it's the only way to view the world The world of form satisfies us
Energy Science Nutrition and Less Form
In a recent blog Seth Godin talks about the trust of the invisible
Godin writes, "..just about every decision we make has to do with things that are invisible ...Have you ever seen the tuberculosis bacteria? Perhaps it doesn’t exist, they might say it’s just a fraud invented by the pharmaceutical industry to get us to buy expensive drugs..."
I would apply what Godin is talking about to the invisible biological energy field and how we nourish it as well Just because we can't see the biologic energy field, does it then deny it's existence?
Footprints of the Biologic Energy Field: 10 Biolgical Pairs
Presently the matter science medical discipline is so conditioned to believe in the visible world of the mindbody form and its molecular expressions that we have a hard time also believing that our mindbody is in the invisible energy field as well There is simultaneity here of the visible and invisible, the measurable and the immeasurable, objective and subjective, form and formless
But just as our senses "feel" the visible world of the mindbody(blood is wet and bone is hard), the invisible energy field of the mindbody also sends sensations that are unarguably coming from somewhere deep in inner space
A need for balance is constantly speaking to us from our biologic energy field
The sensations of hot/cold, hard/soft, static/mobile, light/heavy, smooth/rough, oily/dry are all reports from the energy field that drive us to maintain balance
If we experience cold we put on a coat or sweater to correct If our mindbody is too mobile we try to do things to calm it, often not very effectively If our skin is dry, we either unaware of it or we ignore it(unless of course we are women and then we pay attention since dry skin is not attractive)
Ignorance is not a state of mental aptitude but to ignore what is right in front of us
Learning a New Skill Set
Godin concludes that to "see" the invisible is actually a skill that needs to be developed and I believe that to be so since we are of such a mindset that the only thing to trust is what is of form
But there is a step of trust that we must take before we buy into the biological energy field idea We have to trust that we aren't being misled That we spend a lot of time on something that is not true
Godin writes that "there are two kinds of serious errors: believing in invisible things that aren't true, or insisting that the truth might not be They're caused by fear, by deliberate misinformation and by being uninformed"
Experience Brings Trust in Invisible Nutrition
One way to believe in the invisible biological energy field is to have direct experience That is, try energy science nutrition out and after 3 months, decide for yourself
By your own experience you will find that the biological energy field is the truth
This revelation will be a turning point in your health and how you view your world
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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