vata form of obesity, repost

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There has been a high-pitch propoganda on Low Carb diet for obtaining

benifits against modern chronic diseases. THe author too has been

thinking on this, whether this approach is right. Before posting his

thoughts, one recent interesting research finding is worth examining.

 

dr bhate

 

i don't know why something is necessarily high pitched simply because

you don't agree with it...

further, the question arises as to the nature of what is "right", and

the effort expended to uncover or "expose" it

 

 

Carbohydrates are nutrients (including sugars, starches and fiber)

found in fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains, and dairy foods,

and are the body's main source of energy (calories).

 

that is quite simply, absolutely and irrevocably untrue

glucose is an important molecule to supply energy production in the

body, but the body maintains several important and apparently helpful

methods of fulfilling this requirement - even if the diet is very low

in carbs

 

with getting into the physiology too much, this latter method is

particularly helpful in managing blood sugar and normalizing

metabolism when the vattika temperament is dominant, whether in

constitution or disease

 

the effect of vata is dhatu kashaya, and dravyas from animal products

such as the marrow of the bone is the #1, 100%, A1-best treatment

for vata, and this has been stated so many times by the acharyas i

cannot possibly understand how you might disagree with the premise,

even if it doesn't bend to your philosophy

 

 

 

Researchers from Switzerland recently conducted a study that showed

that low-carbohydrate diets appear to be about as effective as low-

fat diets over the long-term. However, low-carbohydrate diets may

also be responsible for increasing the cholesterol levels of

participants.

<snip>

weight loss between low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets after 12

months were minor and not clinically relevant." The study was

published in the February 13 issue of the Archives of Internal

Medicine.

 

its usually appropriate when citing a study to provide the details of

authorship and publication

but this, once again, is the blind men feeling the elephant, one

study against hundreds of others - easy fodder for someone's version

of a pitched battle between darkness and light, or randomness and

meaning- the reality is we can cite papers all day long and get

nowhere - this is one reason why you and i think along the ayurvedic

perspective

 

in my opinion, i think you may need to become better informed about

the different types of low-carb diet before you pass judgment, at

least from a health perspective

 

sure, i have vegetarian patients that live on coke and cheetohs -

definitely vegetarian, but maybe not so healthy

 

these studies use broad parameters that can be interpreted in a

number of ways, just like the way fat consumption and obesity can say

very different things when you gather a little more data, like

consumption of hydrogenated polyunsaturated vs. saturated fat, etc

 

 

 

Health, as defined by ayurveda, is a balance of all doshas of body

and mind. Each of body cell must be in balance. Each cell of our body

represents same picture in the body, as our own body in universe. IF

that is the case, then we also must remain in balance with rest of

the universe. If universe is taken as earth for the time being, the

proportion of minerals, carbohydrates, proteins must mach as average

over the earth with that present in in the body. The average over

each geographical region may be compared with that found in body.

Thus in the regions where not many agricultural crops exist, proteins

more than carbohydrates appear right.

 

 

in los angeles the landscape has been dramatically altered so that

millions of people can live a valley that can naturally sustain about

75 families - the point is, humans have dramatically altered the

landscape, to suit their need to settle and sustain themselves with

agriculture

 

if we truly followed nature and the natural geography we would

probably move from place to place, or at least range over a very wide

area, like other mammals do, like our ancestors did, traveling over a

broad distance to find the nutrients we need, that the earth

certainly provides in abundance, but perhaps not always "conveniently"

 

this is our human heritage

 

i urge you to read weston price's book, Nutritional Physical

Degeneration

and further, review the work of Loren Cordain on the subject of

Paleolithic nutrition

 

for example, the strong bodies evidence by broad cheekbones and

healthy teeth, so descriptive of kapha qualities such as guru, sthira

etc, are in fact a natural human quality that has been weeded out

through the growing complexity of food technologies, leading to

vattic impairments in the human genome

 

best...

Caldecott

todd

www.toddcaldecott.com