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Eat from the top of the Hourglass
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Garbohydrates |
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Hourglass Diet |
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How sweet it is |
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Junk food |
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The inner hunger |
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Too much, too little |
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I've been crook and I've had a fat guts?
Hippocrates said something to the effect that the physician who's had the disease speaks with more authority! Whilst I'm not a physician (or a naturopath or a chiropractor who passes himself a physician) I'm pleased to pass on to you some of the insight I've gained as my health has got better.
For several years I worked in an environment where I was obligated to preach the gospel of eating more bread and pasta and lowering my intake of fat. I took my own advice and lived on bread and pasta for a year. It nearly did me in; I was as crook as a dog. I was fat and had headaches, elevated blood pressure, incredible tiredness and rampaging Candida infection. I didn't have a clue why.
I went to a doctor, who tried to seduce me with a blood pressure tablet. I read somewhere in an Andrew Weil book, 'Don't go to doctors for things doctors can't cure.' He's right.
I started training harder, and that worked, to a degree. But I still felt shidouse. I was tired all the time.
Then I went to a naturopath who said, 'Stop eating anything with wheat in it for a few days.' I followed his advice. 36 hours later I woke up at 6am, bright eyed and bushy tailed for the first time in a year; the fog had lifted.
Hippocrates was right again - 'Make food your medicine.' Strange that we have to go back 2,500 years to get good medical advice! Strange that medicine 101 doesn't include much about diet, or nutrition 101 include much about the food choices that can really wreak havoc with your system. I'm certain all manner of body system dysfunctions are caused by too much of some foods and too little of others.
I recommend you get a copy of Ray Strand's book, 'What Doctors Don't Know about Nutrition May be Killing You'. He's a doctor himself and worked this out the hard way.
I would think you could point the finger at poor diet as a major contributor to the current epidemic of depression. In fact I'm sure of it.
Once I cut out the garbohydrates - refined flour and sugar - my health started improving and weight started to peel off (not of course without an even more committed exercise program). I can tolerate some flour now, but not a lot.
Since then I've boned up on the topic and the books on the Diet bookshelf provide adequate testimony to the belief that steering clear of junk food and the garbohydrates makes good sense.
Whenever I talk to groups about it, it's amazing the number of people who confess to steering clear of wheat flour and who remark what a difference it has made to the way they feel. The National Health Guidelines are to eat 8 - 10 slices of bread a day (I couldn't believe that) and load yourself up with pasta. The junk pyramid gives bread pride of place. The dieticians are falling over themselves telling people to eat low GI plowman's loaves. Their love affair with bread has perverted the course of glycemic indexation with the low GI bar being set too high.
THE HOURGLASS DIET
Anyway, top cut a long story short, I put my thinking cap on and developed the concept of the Hourglass Diet, where the good food is at the top of the hourglass and the junk is at the bottom. Whilst I'm not as pure as the driven snow on the matter of eating, I stick pretty well to the Hourglass Diet. Take a look at it and see what you think.
If you want to contact me about a particular diet issue feel free to do so. I'll do my best to point you in the right direction.
Like any dietary advice, anything I say might be either last year's or next year's heresy and keep in mind, the advice I provide comes with the proviso that it may or may not work for you and on the understanding that you are responsible for the consequences of any advice you choose to act on. All I know is what worked for me. If it works for you then well and good. You'll have to create your own diet pantheon.