I have some sort of carbohydrate sensitivity/reactive hypoglycemia, but it's really only a problem if I eat meals with a lot of starch. If I need to go as much as 7 hours without eating, I eat a steak slathered with butter. That keeps me going for hours and hours, and when hunger does return, it is very gentle. As it happens, in addition to having 2.9% Neanderthal DNA, I am also APO E4/E4, which puts me at the highest risk of Alzheimer's. As I understand it, the E4 variant is the most ancient form of that allele, which amuses me greatly because in the rarefied woo community that is Fairfield, I am literally a less evolved creature. From what I've read, sensitivity to carbohydrate is not uncommon with E4s, which makes us less able to handle a diet of cheap, fungible, neolithic grains/beans than our more evolved E2 and E3 brethren. With Alzheimer's sometimes described as diabetes of the brain, I figure I'm on the right track keeping carb intake low enough to maintain even blood sugar levels.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Isn't that why they call it "break fast"? People who have experienced hypoglycemia get very paranoid about missing meals. In the 1970s among TM'er hypoglycemia was rampant mainly due to eating bad vegetarian diets. Many went back to eating meat and felt better. Maybe some truth in MMY's "eat what your mother puts before you?" We are essentially what our ancestors ate. If one is paranoid about hypoglycemia the tendency is to overeat rather than do the anal and inconvenient small meals throughout the day. On 11/03/2013 03:49 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: what in the world are you all talking about? Who doesn't go for four or five hours without food or water?? People including me do that all the time. -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 11/3/13, jr_...@yahoo.com mailto:jr_...@yahoo.com <jr_...@yahoo.com> mailto:jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Michelle Pfeiffer escaped from a cult To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 4:17 AM Doc. What did you experience after four hours without food or water? Were you also meditating during the fast? ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I did it, once, for *four* solid hours. Two years ago, around Columbus Day. Nothing - not even a peanut, or half cup of tap water - zip. You probably don't believe me, but its true. I think my years of TM helped, a lot. I must have been in a trance or something, to withstand it. I seriously thought I was going to pass out. Almost like Richard Harris, in that scene, from, "A Man Called Horse". Even so, I am working with a teacher, now, who says I can achieve *five hours*, of non-food, non-water - no problem. He's expensive, but worth it. I think he's Indian. Total cost is ~$1,000 (not including the non-food and non-water, of course). This is a tough crowd, here on FFL, so I'll say up front: This guy is no cult leader. After all, I've been around the block. Don't knock it, 'til you've tried it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Michelle Pfeiffer, the actress, has disclosed that she was once part of a “cult” which believed humans can exist without food or water.http://tinyurl.com/odb3y4c http://tinyurl.com/odb3y4c
