Indigestion again

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> ayurveda, "Shirish Bhate"

> <shirishbhate> wrote:

> > Dear Jay and Bonnie

> >

> >

> > Instead of two meals per day, spread your input to smaller

> > quantities at say 4-5 hour intervals.

 

 

Generally speaking I find that eating more frequent meals to not be a

helpful solution in the long run, although for acute GI inflammation

(e.g. duodenal ulcers, pancreatitis, entero/colitis etc.) a diet of

liquid foods (e.g. chicken broth) and steamed vegies, a little starchy

foods cooked well (e.g. steamed carrots/turnip, baked yams, a little

basmati rice etc.) can be helpful (along with the requisite spices)-

but it is not a sustainable diet for more than a few weeks because it

is nutritionally deficient

 

eating more frequently, say every 3 hours, is a recommendation not of

Ayurveda but of a conventional nutrition, or rather, the "old school"

of nutrition that similarly advocates a low fat-carbo rich diet that

actually promotes digestive disorders and many chronic diseases

 

eating small frequent meals inevitably this weakens digestion by never

allowing the stomch to fully collapse and relax after gastric empyting

- there's always food in it, and this weakens agni and inhibits proper

metabolic function

 

part of the problem lies however in eating less nutritionally dense

foods, which causes one to be hungry more often the reason why people

eat more frequently is to self-medicate for labile blood sugar levels

caused by eating less nutritionally dense foods

 

unless fasting or suffering from an acute GI disorder, i recommend

folks to eat 2-3 nutritionally dense meals

in my clinical experience its difficult to do this with pure vegetarian

(vegan) foods but lacto-ovos can do quite well

for e.g., i can have a meal of 3 free-range eggs and some stir-fried

swiss chard with garlic for breakfast and go all day without eating,

seeing patients, teaching, etc., with lots of energy, and then eat a

nice meal at home with my family

 

it is eating a less nutritionally dense diet dominant in grains and

cereals that have to be packed into the digestive tract to ensure

adequate nutrition that is a major causitive factor of hiatus hernia

and reflux

 

IMO, the smaller the volume of food, and the less frequently it needs

to be put in the gut, the better

 

"breakfast like a king, lunch like a merchant, and dine like a pauper"

inotherwords, eat supper for breakfast, a good lunch, and eat a light

supper

 

in Ayurveda and in almost all other systems of medicine the general

recommendation is to eat less often, not more in the West and

increaingly in the East, the practice of eating more frequently (and on

the run as most do in their busy day) promotes obesity, diabetes and CVD

 

here in the West, obesity due to overeating, eating too often and not

taking enough time to eat is epidemic

many folks use this way of eating as a way to treat emotional

dysfunctions, literally stuffing themselves all day long to suppress

their inherent emotional disatisfactions

 

in China, it was the demi-god Sheng Nung that brought the message of

Heaven that all people should eat once a day of course, Sheng Hung got

it mixed up on the way to Earth and told the people to eat three times

a day the gods were so mad they turned Sheng Nung into an ox, his

burden forever to pull the plough to til the soil to feed all the

people that need to eat all the time.

 

> One requires strong and unclogged liver to digest fats, ghee, certain

> pulses. For non-vegetarian food, liver requires further strength.

 

eating a higher protein diet actually takes stress of the liver

it is a well-established fact that adequate protein is a prerequisite

to proper liver function, and if anything, vegies lack adequate protein

 

its important however to stress that the non-veg source needs to be

clean, organic and free- range

 

feedlot junk is rife with toxins that places stress upon detoxification

pathways in the liver and alters immune function

Caldecott

phyto

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