One diet does not fit all....each person will do best by finding out what foods and quantities are best for them.....I guess....maybe not....maybe we should ignore our experience and just mindlessly follow some diet that someone else says we should eat....
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Eat your way to happiness!
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
100% percent true. Whole wheat bread is a health food for some people, but a trip to the hospital for someone with celiac disease. On the other hand, many things from medical research concerning nutrition and health apply to everyone.
In reading the scriptures, there are two kinds of mistakes:
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
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I'd be very interested to see some 'proof' but I've long been a beleiver that diet plays a very important part in ones physical and mental health. Didnt the Buddha himself have to start eating properly again to regain the strength to pursue Nibbana
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Re: Eat your way to happiness!
No...he just had to start eating again. He had been on a prolonged fast.
What he actually ate was sweet rice...loaded with curds ! And jaggery sugar !
So neither vegan nor health food...And he described the strength coming back to his limbs.
What he actually ate was sweet rice...loaded with curds ! And jaggery sugar !
So neither vegan nor health food...And he described the strength coming back to his limbs.
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Re: Eat your way to happiness!
As I understand it, the Buddha went to extremes, depriving himself of all and any extraneous 'adornment', including food, which he felt might have been a distraction to him, and diverted him from his path and quest - but he realised that this really, was just as bad as going to excess, and did nothing to either enhance or improve his concentration and determination - so he resumed eating, but gently....Bodhisurfer wrote:I'd be very interested to see some 'proof' but I've long been a beleiver that diet plays a very important part in ones physical and mental health. Didnt the Buddha himself have to start eating properly again to regain the strength to pursue Nibbana
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Re: Eat your way to happiness!
Hi Jhana4.
Are you sure Weston Price foundation is funded by ranchers? I didn't know that.
References would be great. As far as I know they are a nonprofit.
Are you sure Weston Price foundation is funded by ranchers? I didn't know that.
References would be great. As far as I know they are a nonprofit.
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
On the subject of saturated fat:
It's important to recognize the differences between fats. Mothers milk, for instance, is very high in saturated fat. I doubt anyone would argue against breast feeding.
There is good fat, and there is bad fat. French fries are bad, Coconuts are good. Walnuts and almonds are good. Twinkies and cupcakes are bad. You should eat good fats and avoid bad ones.
It's important to recognize the differences between fats. Mothers milk, for instance, is very high in saturated fat. I doubt anyone would argue against breast feeding.
There is good fat, and there is bad fat. French fries are bad, Coconuts are good. Walnuts and almonds are good. Twinkies and cupcakes are bad. You should eat good fats and avoid bad ones.
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
Too bad.alan wrote:You should eat good fats and avoid bad ones.
But: Why can't all these scientists put it that simple?!
Kind regards
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
http://www.coconut-connections.com/weight_problems.htm I take coconut oil every day.
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
Good to recognise the difference between people, too. Babies' dietary needs are far different from adults'.alan wrote:On the subject of saturated fat:
It's important to recognize the differences between fats. Mothers milk, for instance, is very high in saturated fat. I doubt anyone would argue against breast feeding.
That makes that particular argument very weak, though it doesn't necessarily mean that your broader argument is wrong.
Kim
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
They don't advertise it on their site, but since they are a nonprofit they are required by law to tell people who they are funded by if asked. I wrote them a letter asking them.alan wrote:Hi Jhana4.
Are you sure Weston Price foundation is funded by ranchers? I didn't know that.
References would be great. As far as I know they are a nonprofit.
The actual Weston Price lived over 70 years ago. He was a researcher, a scientist, a medical doctor or even a nutritionist. He was a dentist who toured the 3rd world, noticed that people had better teeth and simpler diets.
In reading the scriptures, there are two kinds of mistakes:
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
Businesses trying to sell an alternative food product are not reliable sources of health information in regards to those products.alan wrote:http://www.coconut-connections.com/weight_problems.htm I take coconut oil every day.
In reading the scriptures, there are two kinds of mistakes:
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
Perhaps. But I'd say only a fool would ignore this information. http://www.coconutoil.com/litalee.htm
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
Anyway gentlemen, let's get this thread back on topic!
kind regards
Ben
kind regards
Ben
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Eat your way to happiness!
Ok then, back to subject.
The link between diet and mental health has been proven so many times that I have wonder why it is even reported as "news".
I've been actively involved in the skillful integration of diet and exercise for many years. Happy to share with those willing to listen.
The link between diet and mental health has been proven so many times that I have wonder why it is even reported as "news".
I've been actively involved in the skillful integration of diet and exercise for many years. Happy to share with those willing to listen.