Diet Considerations for Health and Obessity - Part 1

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Dear Members

 

The subject of food receives considerable attention in most querries.

And why not? A proper food makes us not only happy but contented,

warm and smiling. Good foods are nutritious, nurturing, wholesome and

satisfying. They should also be intelligent, and balance the Tri-

doshas of mind and body. See the file stored on group

website "Food_Properties.doc". The food issues are divided in three

posts. In the first post today, author, being veggie, discusses

various principles to be used while selecting the vegetarian foods,

leaving non-vegetarian foods to others. In Message No. 1356, the

author had indicated the possibility that chemical weapons are

already out. After many more meditations, the answer to that feeling

is provided in second post tomorrow. The chemical weapons have

damaged our food, by modifying the genes, and the culprits are the

scientists. The most serious issue `obessity' is touched upon in a

new light, in today's and also third post, day after tomorrow.

 

In search of Energy

 

The food we eat should be lively. Consisting of energy boost (Jeeva

shakti) we are looking after. We feel hunger when our energy (blood

glucose) becomes depleted. To get satisfied Jeeva shakti foods must

be eaten, not just stuffing ourselves. To understand what is Jeeva

shakti, have you noticed how a freshly plucked vegetable from farm,

looses the shine as it is transported to a city wholesale market and

then retailer brings it to your neighborhood shop. The shine on the

fresh vegetable, or a fresh young leaf growing during `Vasant'

season, is nothing but Jeeva Shakti, mainly made up of earth+water

elements. In sunlight, the shine is caused by this water part.

 

The fresh, organic, home-cooked food has the power to carry minerals

from earth and Jeeva shakti to our brain and body. The foods which

satisfy and nourish are having more Jeeva shakti. Preserved, frozen,

processed foods and leftovers, on the other hand, have lost that

Jeeva shakti. Fridge or cold storage cannot increase Jeeva shakti.

Such foods leave our body unsatisfied and craving for more. Since

these junk foods are void of Jeeva shakti they cannot support the

demand of the body, so we end up eating more and craving for more,

without ever getting nourished or fulfilled. This is the way we

easily gain weight. Plants, trees do not have need to move from place

to place; hence God has provided them wilth less Jeeva shakti as

compared to Animals who have to move and hunt. Hence they have more

Jeeva shakti. Hence Todd recommends that all veggies feel happier

when they take something from other animals. Ghee, eggs, milk, etc.

Did we not grow most rapidly and healthily on mothers milk. Thus

animal derived foods have more Jeeva shakti and as Guru Khalsa

pointed out in yesterdays post, Animal food also has Karma hidden

inside it. What he calls Karma, the author terms it as intelligence.

Despite much progress in science, this Jeeva shakti, Karma etc has to

be believed as indirectly proven. Can anybody show gravitation,

electricity directly? There presence has to be accepted as an axiom.

 

To produce 1 kg blood, 40 kg food is needed. And 1 kg blood, after various

complex chemical processes turns into 'Veerya' in 49 days, just 1 tsp or about 5

gms. THis is the highest derived dhatu. Full of Jeevashakti of 40 kg food. Hence

Yoga science recommends preserving 'Veerya'. And in fact, since Veerya does not

get stored in the body for a long time, if unused till 24 (boys) or 18 (girls)

it provides a health protection in the form of moons in the bottom of nails,

where they connect the fingers. This process of converting food in Sapt dhatus,

if gets disturbed anywhere, then conversion to higher dhatus stops after Meda

dhatu. This is the secret of 'Obessity', causing increase of Meda and storage in

various parts of body. Thus sapt-dhatu proces is similar to conversion of large

old volumes in library to microfiche. It is connected to nervous system through

pituitary gland. The spinal injections during C-section and other surgical

procedures disturbs the endocrine gland program stored in Pituitary and is the

secret of increased obessity after C-section or menopause.

 

 

Always Hungry, a fire leading to Obessity?

 

The first thing we can do to avoid feelings of false hunger and

cravings is to increase the Jeeva Shakti in meals by eating, fresh,

home-made meals, and avoiding spicy fast foods. When the dough is

kneeded by mother, she is sending reiki into it, which children

receive automatically. Entire solar system obtains energy from Sun.

The grains, vegetables, fruits obtain this energy in different

proportions and we get it from them in readily usable form. This is

the secret of Panchgavya medicines. The cow grazing in the sun, has a

special suvarna nadi to absorb sun's energy and transfer to her milk,

urine etc. That craetes Aurium hydroxide in her milk, urine etc. and

also the reason why her milk, curd, ghee is yellowish. She gives her

Suvarna, which otherwise is availabel in a number of ayurvedic

medicines as suvarna bhasma.

 

We also need to eat a variety of foods with all six tastes. All

tastes, viz. sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent

foods satisfy the body. Tastes are associated with various

fundamental elements of universe as follows:

Bitter: Air + Ether(Aakash)

Astringent: Air +water

Pungent: Air +Fire

Sweet: Earth+water

Salty: Earth+Fire

Sour: Water+Fire

 

We need a balanced combination of tastes in our daily diet.

 

Cooked food is also more nourishing than raw foods. Raw foods

are harder to digest and can diminish agni. Similarly, new harvested

grains should be kept unused for 6 months, as new grains weaken Agni.

When agni is weak, the body creates ama (accumulated toxins), which

clogs the channels and prevents the body from receiving nutrients

from food. This, in the end, results in cravings. Eat enough but

don't overeat. My grand-ma used to say, "Stomach should be half full

after main meal. Quarter space should be left for water and another

quarter for churning action".

 

Sweets for the heart

 

Pensive mood/depression/anxiety results from imbalance in Sadhaka

Pitta, which governs the working of heart. When this gets disturbed,

depression is generally the result. The sweet taste pacifies pitta

and Vata, which explains our cravings for sweets. While foods such as

sweets, chocolates, ice-creams provide the sweet taste, they lack the

Jeeva shakti to satisfy brain, and craving does'nt stop. On the other

hand, a piece of sweet, juicy fruit, soaked dates or raisins, milk-

date shakes or mango shakes, Gulkand, Drakshavaleha is also a great

pitta-pacifying sweet. These will saisfy the brain and heart. Amongst

all such foods, ghee is best, preferred as "animal food" and also

gives complete nutrition. Ghee must be from grass fed country cow.

 

Foods to pacify Vata

 

Anxiety, Worries and mental imbalance are the result of aggravated

Vata. To calm the mind, easy-to-digest, nourishing meals and spices

such as cumin and coriander, fennel open the micro channels of the

brain. In addition to the above-mentioned sweets, walnuts, almonds

and coconut milk are especially supportive for the mind. The spices

also help open up the channels of the mind, heart and the rest of the

body-mind system.

 

Some universal principles

 

Nature produces foods in each region and season, suitable for species

residing there. Hence use local foods as far as possible. Perhaps

this should be said about herbs also. The author tried Korean herbs

in India with a limited success. Thus local herbs are more kind to

those who are grown from the minerals of the motherland. If one looks

at the sickness as unbalance in doshas, by ingesting herbs having

ideal balanced doshas, he is trying to align himself with the food

ingested. Nature has made various fruits and herbs to resemble the

shapes and characteristics of some of our organs. It has been found

that these fruits/herbs are very useful in diseases related to those

organs. For instances:

 

Akhrot: for brain disorders;

Almond: for eyes,

Apple/Amalaki: Heart

Grapes: for lungs;

Cashewnut: for kidneys;

Mangoes, Papaya: for Stomach

Guava: for Uterus/Ovaries;

Banana: Sex power,

Gotu Kola (Brahmi) and Ginkgo Biloba: Brain;

Coconut: Brain, hair;

Horse gram: strengthening testicles, increasing sperms.

 

There are a number of other herbs/fruits, they are left to "group

members" to discover during meditation.

 

It is interesting to know that Ayurveda belives in "what you eat so

you become" Thus if you eat long slender vegetables, you will also

become slender. On the other hand, if you eat round and heavy

vegetables/fruits, you will also become curvy. Brinjal for instance,

is believed to cause obessity. So is Pottato. But let me pose a

question. Many of us know that a boiled and smashed potato pulp is

used to grow micro organisms in Laboratories. Though potato is liked

so much by these organsims, none of them do not touch it when not

harvested, lying inside the soil. In fact, Potato does not need any

pesticide. It is most unattacked food. And the only way it becomes

unusable is when due to hot environment, it sprouts in the storage.

It is so full of fertilization power that it sprouts rapidly. Hence,

it is liked by everyone all over the globe. Potato, good when boild

with skin and eaten without frying. It does not cause any obessity, contrary to

thing by most.

 

Here we conclude first part of this topic, the question of producing

food will be discussed in tomorrows post.

 

Dr. Bhate