-eating for your type

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Shivani,

I was happy to read your opinions on " eat right for your type " as I

definetly agree with you. According to it (didn't read it thoroughly

though! Just checked out my type when I saw the book at my mothers house), I

should be eating meat, and as a very healthy Vegan, I do not agree with

anything that promotes the unneccessary slaughter of innocent animals.

 

Anyway, the main reason I wanted to reply was to say that you are very

right about the following statement you made (IMHO)...

 

" Anyway, it'd be interesting to know just WHAT people were eating

and not

> eating when they were vegetarian, and experiment to see just what it is

that

> was not doing them good, and just what it is that they need.

> Vegetarian/non-vegetarian just cover so much territory that it doesn't

really

> mean much. "

 

I've found this to be true. Its very easy to be vegetarian or vegan and

be unhealthy, if the proper nutrients aren't consumed. Sometimes its a

little harder for people to ease into an animal-free diet, as it requires

more research and understanding to learn what can replace the former animal

products in their diets... recently been helping a friend with this...at

first she was gaining weight and feeling sluggish after going vegetarian,

but it slowly doing better, nd losing those few new pounds. I feel that

she'll feel better than she did before, it just takes more time for some

people to transition

 

I have never heard of Ayurveda before and you have definetly sparked my

interest ) I think I'll read up on this to see what it is. Can you

recommend any websites I should look at?

 

Thanks!

Kelly

(...also a friendly, well-meant message )

 

 

 

 

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<SArjuna

 

Monday, January 14, 2002 2:53 Night

Re: eating for your type

 

 

> My naturopath recommended that book, so I read it. I'm an O, also,

but

> have been vegetarian for decades. Healthfully.

> That book would have light-weight me doing intense exercise, and my

> athletic husband doing just gentle stetches and walking. Just the

opposite

> of what we actually need. My DH thrives on intense exercise, wheras it

would

> do me in.

> I found a number of interesting points and ideas in the book, but to

me

> they don't add up to the grand conclusions he draws.

> The world's oldest health care system still looks the best to me.

> Ayurveda. Looking through that lens, I am a Vata and so of course cannot

> bear intense exercise, but my Pitta husband definitely needs it.

> I have heard several people say that they feel better when they eat

meat,

> but I don't think it is the meat per se that they need. I think it is the

> fat. I get that by eating lots of ghee.

> Anyway, it'd be interesting to know just WHAT people were eating and

not

> eating when they were vegetarian, and experiment to see just what it is

that

> was not doing them good, and just what it is that they need.

> Vegetarian/non-vegetarian just cover so much territory that it doesn't

really

> mean much.

> Even the word " vegetarian " means a lot of different things to a lot of

> people. Some people think vegetarians eat everything except beef and

pork.

> Others think it means not eating anything that came from an animal in any

> way, even butter or honey. And lots of people become vegetarian just by

> skipping what used to be the main course, but still eating the S.A.D. the

> very sad " standard American diet. "

> So making generalizations about all thils is sort of like the

discussion

> soapers have about some folks having trouble with shampoo bars while

others

> do not. What is IN the various shampoo bars, what kind of water do folks

> have, what kind of hair do they have, etc. A lot of variables would have

to

> be looked at.

> This is really pretty much the same point that I was making (trying

to,

> anyhow) the other day in the discussion about cholesterol. That it

doesn't

> make a lot of sense to generalize based on just bits of information.

> Hope my intention is clear here. This IS a friendly, well-meant

message!

> Shivani

>