Thanks, bhairitu, good test. I scored 22 for fast, 19 for balanced and 3 for slow. Sounds like I'm on the right track with avoiding high glycemic foods. Fascinating too about the different kinds of protein. Never knew that before.
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:23 PM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: 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@..." >><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, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: >> >> >>http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/10/15/college-study-finds-oreo-cookies-are-as-addictive-as-drugs/ >> >> >
