Re: diet mentality

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Wow, I am totally impressed with your work with your lungs and following your

intuitive. Kudos for taking your body into your own hands - a very scary

proposition, I might add, but so worth the journey.

I was diagnosed with high blood pressure a few years back (who over 50 isn't?)

and determined NOT to go the allopathic (Western Medicine) route. It was a

scary decision to make - which actually surprised me, I thought I was much

braver than that.

I wound up getting accupunture and working a lot on my stress response. For me,

starting blood pressure medications and all that follows is the beginning of not

only old age, but dying to my inner being and shutting off the voice of my body

entirely. I don't want to do that to my psyche and I don't believe that

diseases are separate from the self or that they're simply the result of foods,

per se. I just don't.

The foods are part of it, but it's what drives one to eat foods out of balance

that is the issue. And, being unkind to ourselves (per previous posts) is a big

driver when it comes to eating in ways that are unhealthy - I find. I can and

do get so mean to myself and then when I eat, I'm eating that energy, that

emotion of self abuse and self punishment along with whatever food I'm

ingesting. That's what causes disease, I'm sure of it. So, yes it's the food -

but it's not the food. If you know what I mean.

My accupuncturist is a third generation Chinese herbal doctor and he told me

this about their knowledge of nutrition. He said that in the past

accupuncturists/chinese medicine doctors would be killed by the ruling classes

if they did not keep them healthy. It was their job to keep their patients

alive and feeling good. He said that made them very motivated to learn

everything they could about how to keep a person healthy including how to use

foods as medicine.

Their nutritional information is 6,000 years old. And, those who are

traditionally trained from schools that practice " real " accupuncture and chinese

herbal medicine (rather than the short-cut Americanized versions) have an

abundance of information on foods and flavors that change various body

conditions including emotional states. They diagnose by looking at the tongue,

taking pulses (we have many) and in other ways.

Well, anyway, for my money western medicine and nutritioal wisdom - a total

oxymoron. Western medicine may keep the body alive, but often at the expense of

the soul. Know what I mean?

Good subject - nice bunch of posts. For me, it's more about being kind to

myself than what I think about what I eat or have eaten or want to eat. Have to

work on that being kind though, it does not come naturally; lost that a long

time ago.

Sandarah

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> > Trying to distinguish between External and INternal cues. My

> > doctors(EXternal) say I have to lose weight to get my liver enzymes down,

> > there is no medication except some vitamin E. Yet the Liver itself

> > produces(INternal) most of our cholesterol as I understand it, and it has

> > very little to do with diet. How do I know which is EXternal or INternal?

> > Anyone with good info on this? I have to go out now and will look this up

> > again later. Sandy

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