Many boomers are parasympathetic dominant, so are more naturally meat
and potatoes types. There are a few sites with questionnaires for types
including the caloriecount.com one at the bottom of the article. The
full programs look at blood tests and lots of questions. I did it in
1981 and came up a parasympathetic type and a sympathetic sub type. But
in actuality I am more a mixed type. Any amount of time trying to
rebalance can throw me the other way. Mixed types as they are in
ayurveda too, are difficult to balance. The parasympathetic types are
usually fast oxidizers or protein types and the sympathetic types slow
oxidizers or carbohydrate types. Bill Wolcott is also a former TM
teacher and someone I knew through TM. The questionnaire:
http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/weight-loss/metabolic-types-eating
But wait, there's more. Next time Dr. George Watson's spin on the thing
that Wolcott incorporated.
On 10/16/2013 12:13 PM, sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:
Breaking Bad?! How come? Anyway, I wish there were an online test I
could take to find out my metabolic type.
In Chinese system I'm lesser yang. Should be eating pork and shrimp!
According to nutritional intuitive, I should be eating buffalo
burgers! Right now I do well on a low glycemic diet: no pasta or rice
or bread plus no dairy.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
For some reason this reminds me of "Breaking Bad". :-D
Not nice to fool your body though. When your body wants a sweet it
wants it for a reason and using a sugar substitute has been found not
to be a good idea. The reason westerners like to have a dessert after
a meal is the same reason that Indians like to have saunf. And also
tied in with the idea that you should wait a half hour before swimming.
TM talks about the autonomic nervous system but not very deeply. The
sympathetic system is for activity and parasympathetic for digestion
and sleep. Basically meditation is supposed to calm the sympathetic
system. Eating a sweet relaxes the digestive tact and helps calm the
sympathetic system so the parasympathetic can do it's work. And
sometimes when the stomach is busy digesting the brain gets short
changed for blood sugar and screams!
The problem is trying to be a vegetarian when your body needs you to
be a meat and potatoes person. As usual "mass nutrition" is not a
good policy to follow and it is as "dumb as rocks".
I use several metabolic concepts along with ayurveda such as Chinese
yin and yang (simpler than ayurveda) and metabolic typing. Here's a
good overview about metabolic typing. And BTW, it's not the
brainchild of Bill Wolcott who took over the program from Dr. Kelley.
http://www.naturalnews.com/029665_metabolic_type_diet.html
On 10/16/2013 09:12 AM, Share Long wrote:
My current indulgence is almond butter with some drops of stevia.
Yummy but seems to be kind of a sleeping potion!
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:31 AM, "j_alexander_stanley@..."
<mailto:j_alexander_stanley@...> <j_alexander_stanley@...>
<mailto:j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote:
"“Our research supports the theory that high-fat/ high-sugar foods
stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do,” Neuroscience
Professor Joseph Schroeder said in a school press release."
For me, the problem isn't the sugar or the fat, but rather the
starch, which is ultimately just pure glucose. Back in 2003, when I
was gorging myself to 190+ pounds, my favorite snack binge was an
entire box of Newman-Os, Paul Newman's organic version of Oreos,
which I would inhale in a matter of minutes. I'd then sleep off the
blood sugar crash and have a few dried dates when I woke up. It was
an endless blood sugar roller coaster. But, I can eat a pint of ice
cream and be completely satisfied and suffer no blood sugar issues.
To crash my blood sugar on ice cream, I have to eat a quart or more,
and ice cream just doesn't have that binge driving effect on me that
starchy snack foods do.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/10/15/college-study-finds-oreo-cookies-are-as-addictive-as-drugs/
