My first experience with the idea of "biochemical individuality" came in
1972 when a friend's wife who was attending naturopathic college
recommended it get a physical there. The MD (who was getting his ND)
asked if I was a vegetarian and I said "no, but I've been trying it for
a couple of weeks." He told me I was already showing signs of anemia
and recommended eating some animal protein two or three times a week.
That began my interests in using specific diets with first the
macrobiotic diet after reading William Duffy's "Sugar Blues". BTW, that
isn't about just eating brown rice and the books on it had diets to
balance yin and yang and would often recommend fish.
Then there was then interest in ayurveda sparked by the AE courses. I
got some books on that to read up on it. Another interest among TM'ers
in the late 1970s was the Bieler diet. He was an endocrinologist who had
specific diets for people with different endocrine makeups. The doctor
TM'er saw for that was Abravenal out of Los Angeles.
Finally a group of folks in Seattle got interested in the Kelley program
which was a computerized diet system that evaluated whether you were a
fast oxidizer, slow oxidizer or mixed oxidizer. There were diet
programs for each and specific supplements. To this day I use these
concepts along with Indian and Chinese medical concepts to keep my body
out of trouble.
Nutrition is not an ideology. You NEED to eat what your body needs.
There is no way around this. I've watched people who shouldn't be
vegans adopt that diet (which is primarily a cleansing diet) start
living "in their head". They seem to like the high but some of them are
beginning to have the medical problems that an inappropriate diet can cause.
On 01/13/2014 11:48 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/Good article, and about bloody time. Those of us who gave up
vegetarianism years ago get subjected to proselytizing about how cool
and wonderful and...well...more evolved vegetarian eating is almost
every day on the Net and in the press. But no one speaks up for those
of us who tried it, didn't like it much, and went back to being what
nature intended us to be -- happy omnivores.
In my case, my breakthrough moment after years of being strict veggie
(although never anything weirder and more fundamentalist like Vegan or
macrobiotic or gluten-free) was at an ATR course at Cobb Mountain. I
was in line for dinner and a piece of chicken called my name and said
"Eat me." I did, felt better almost immediately, and have never looked
back since.
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