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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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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21st Century Biology: The Future of Nutrition
It is becoming legitimate to talk of invisible forces that shape creation - not labeling them as God but as the true shapers of reality beyond the space/time continuum
A whole new field known as quantum biology has sprung up, based on a true breakthrough - the idea that the total split between the micro world of the quantum(energy field) and the macro world(matter field) of everyday things may be a false split Anonymous
Science Fiction and Reality
"Beam me up Scottie" is one of the common phrases that we remember from Star Trek and trekkies became a group of followers interested in the sci fi of tomorrow
And just as far fetched as Jules Vern was with his novel 20,0000 Leagues Under the Sea, the imagination of today becomes the reality of tomorrow
So just how does Scottie beam Captain Kirk up to the starship Enterprise? Some translation occurs from the matter field into an energy field that can then be translocated through space
Quantum Biology
Now a new term has surfaced that has great relevance for students in the energy science disciplines-quantum biology The dominance of the molecular world is beginning to yield to the energy world Many things cannot be adequately explained by the dance of molecules
Molecules or particles are now being recognized as waves of energy
Our contemporary understanding of the physical laws that govern the universe is that matter and energy are completely interchangeable which leads us to the inevitable conclusion that the human physiology is simultaneously matter and energy fields. Our current biological model entertains only a matter field approach to healing
Contemporary Legitimate Biological Energy Models
Biological models are now being scientifically studied to understand the human biology not as a matter field but as an energy field The true challenge is to find models that adequately express the energy field concept such as the Ayurvedic model or the Traditional Oriental Medical(TOM) model
I believe that there are many of us that have no question about the fact that the human biology is indeed an energy field I have actually in the office never had a patient ask for proof or contest this biologic fact
But there are those of us who have their own idea of how to treat and deal with the mindbody as as an energy field And many of these approaches don't operate from a validated model
The energy field model of Ayurveda and the information from which Dr Ornish has premised his model of nutritional healing is aligned with such a style of thinking It's just that his process could be refined to mindbody energy pattern thinking(one size doesn't fit all) but that's a whole different issue
Nutrition in the 21st Century
What kind of relevance does this have for students of nutrition? If the model of what the human physiology changes then so does how we nourish it
A biological paradigm shift is occurring and it will change how we heal and prevent disease
We can deny it, fight it, or get with the wave
Go to foodsheal.com and get a leg up on the future!
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Nutrition and Mental Foibles
Broadly speaking, there are mental structures that we all share such as denial, resentment, love, jealousy, etc And these structures are permanent, cultural, variable in expression, and are continuum based
"What in the heck does this have to do with nutrition," one asks Hang in there for a brief moment and we'll get there, I promise
The Mind and Mental Structures
My son and I were talking over lunch about the differences in the matter science and energy science disciplines and how the matter(molecular) science has such structure around its discipline yet the energy science is more ephemeral
This led to the discussion of mind Since he's finishing his doctoral program in psychology and even though there is little structure to hang one's hat on, it's clear that the energy field of the mind, though not having substance such as the physical body, can be alloted structure
So resentment can be variable in its expression, shared by everyone(unless you're into another structure called denial), oft times culturally based(more in one than another), and some harbor more than others based on their imbalances
Qualities of Mental Structures
And there are specific qualities about these mental structures and this is where this thought process is leading These mental structures have the qualities that make up the mindbody energy field
Let's take for an example denial which carries the qualities of Kapha, namely cold, heavy, gross, liquid, slow/dull, hard, cloudy, static, oily, and dense
Link to Nutrition
So how can we reduce our chances for denial Well, one of the ways is to stop provoking Kapha tendency with Kapha provoking nutrition Particularly for Kapha predominant individuals using a Kapha pacifying nutritional format would be very useful avoiding those foods that bring about the qualities associated with the above
"Bizarro"you might say But if the mind and body are intimately spliced, then what happens in the mind happens in the body and vice versa
How about the mental structure of resentment? This is a structure brought about by Pitta imbalance with the qualities of hot, sharp/penetrating, mobile, light, liquid, and oily So in that setting reducing Pitta aggravating foods in the nutritional format would be helpful
Who says that nutrition cannot impact our mental state? The energy science nutritional medical model says most definitely!
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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