hello friends,
I am posting this because in another forum Patrick was giving an example about weightloss and how real knowledge of right diets is incredibly difficult due to contrary views as you look at it over a lapse of time. The other thread was about knowledge and how to find real knowledge.
So, because I have the example of a close one who, after many years of overweight, found balance and a healthier body, I am just posting this below. Again it is simply another point of view, but somewhat interesting.
Before posting Ayurveda points of view, which are in fact ancient as Ayurveda is one of the oldest medicine ways known on Earth, there was in france the interesting story of a dietician MD, named Dr. Zermati.
He first in the late 70s counseled his patients to adopt a low calorie/low fat diet. It would initially work then his patients would lapse and return with a heavier problem. Then he would turn them to the low carbohydrate diet with, after a while, the same issue of failure and imbalance.
Dr. Zermati was very dedicated to his patients and felt their anguish, so he took a sabbatical and during three years decided to study in depth the people who had no problem staying lean.
He very soon noticed that they would eat a whole range of things but never would eat when they were not hungry, so if not hungry they would just skip a meal. In other words, Dr. Zermati found out that satiety was key, a mechasnim that can be seen in children who stop eating when they have enough. Whence attention to what we eat is primordial, what specific thing we wish to eat, how we feel when we eat it, and how important it is to stop even after only two mouthfuls if we do not find pleasure in it anymore. So how important each mouthful is essential. Quite epicurean...
This is a key point also in Ayurveda. But what is interesting in Ayurveda is the view of categorizing the entity in a specific way, by the Doshas.
Each one of us is more or less governed by our Doshas which number three, Vata, Pitta, Kapha.
Through answering questionnaires, you determine which Dosha you most belong to, while the two other Doshas still have an impact on you, but less.
Along how these Doshas govern us, food impact will be different. For example, I am very Vata, dosha governed by air. I am thin and lose weight easily. If through stress, too spicy food, too much wind outside, I become more Vata, then I lose more sleep, lose more weigh and become anxious.
What is so interesting in Ayurveda is that it takes into account not just the physical, but also the mental and emotional.
If you want to read more about this, Deepak Chopra, originally from India, has in fact, long ago, published a small thin book, titled Perfect Weight, which in a simple way allows you to find how are the Doshas for you, and through simple advice for food, how to balance those doshas.
A close one to me was very Kapha. Signs of Kapha are, you are slow in the way you walk, you hate to walk fast, you gain weight easily, you tend to sleep too much, you have a placid and calm disposition, you don't learn quickly but you have excellent retention and memory, and losing weight is a problem. As you see, the questionnaires and doshas cover different aspect of your personality.
If anyone would like to have access to the three Doshas questionnaires, without getting the little book, just PM me and I shall send them to you.
Just another perspective here,
I am posting this because in another forum Patrick was giving an example about weightloss and how real knowledge of right diets is incredibly difficult due to contrary views as you look at it over a lapse of time. The other thread was about knowledge and how to find real knowledge.
So, because I have the example of a close one who, after many years of overweight, found balance and a healthier body, I am just posting this below. Again it is simply another point of view, but somewhat interesting.
Before posting Ayurveda points of view, which are in fact ancient as Ayurveda is one of the oldest medicine ways known on Earth, there was in france the interesting story of a dietician MD, named Dr. Zermati.
He first in the late 70s counseled his patients to adopt a low calorie/low fat diet. It would initially work then his patients would lapse and return with a heavier problem. Then he would turn them to the low carbohydrate diet with, after a while, the same issue of failure and imbalance.
Dr. Zermati was very dedicated to his patients and felt their anguish, so he took a sabbatical and during three years decided to study in depth the people who had no problem staying lean.
He very soon noticed that they would eat a whole range of things but never would eat when they were not hungry, so if not hungry they would just skip a meal. In other words, Dr. Zermati found out that satiety was key, a mechasnim that can be seen in children who stop eating when they have enough. Whence attention to what we eat is primordial, what specific thing we wish to eat, how we feel when we eat it, and how important it is to stop even after only two mouthfuls if we do not find pleasure in it anymore. So how important each mouthful is essential. Quite epicurean...
This is a key point also in Ayurveda. But what is interesting in Ayurveda is the view of categorizing the entity in a specific way, by the Doshas.
Each one of us is more or less governed by our Doshas which number three, Vata, Pitta, Kapha.
Through answering questionnaires, you determine which Dosha you most belong to, while the two other Doshas still have an impact on you, but less.
Along how these Doshas govern us, food impact will be different. For example, I am very Vata, dosha governed by air. I am thin and lose weight easily. If through stress, too spicy food, too much wind outside, I become more Vata, then I lose more sleep, lose more weigh and become anxious.
What is so interesting in Ayurveda is that it takes into account not just the physical, but also the mental and emotional.
If you want to read more about this, Deepak Chopra, originally from India, has in fact, long ago, published a small thin book, titled Perfect Weight, which in a simple way allows you to find how are the Doshas for you, and through simple advice for food, how to balance those doshas.
A close one to me was very Kapha. Signs of Kapha are, you are slow in the way you walk, you hate to walk fast, you gain weight easily, you tend to sleep too much, you have a placid and calm disposition, you don't learn quickly but you have excellent retention and memory, and losing weight is a problem. As you see, the questionnaires and doshas cover different aspect of your personality.
If anyone would like to have access to the three Doshas questionnaires, without getting the little book, just PM me and I shall send them to you.
Just another perspective here,
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