Eating Well - A journey to the magics of food

Preface

Have you ever felt uncomfortable after a heavy meal, or even after a small tiny meal? If yes, it shouldn’t be so.  You should feel that you just ate, for sure; your body is doing a great deal of a job inside with hundreds of micro enzymes and acids secreting by very specific order decided by messengers. But you shouldn’t have this feeling of heaviness, dampness or sleepiness. Feeling so probably means your stomach is taking too much energy to process your meal. What’s the secret? Finding your own diet!

You probably think that feeling sleepy after a meal is normal, right?  Wrong...  This is a mistake to assume everything is ok because you don’t feel anything painful.  In fact, no one really cares about his or her diet, until there is a problem or impairment in the digestive system.

One of the most basic things with nutrition is that certain aliments do not combine well with others, and it is important to consider which aliments should compose your meal, and how to sequence them correctly.

While studying the subject, I realized how the western civilization is literally “feeding itself to death”, or in the least bad case to overweight, heart, digestive and other physical, emotional and spiritual diseases. Yes, there is something like spiritual disease! I will leave this to another discussion; we are here to talk about food.

It is crucial to understand that as human beings, we do not have built in special training of how to deal with the vast amount of food offered in today’s society.  Moreover, as awkward as it sounds, we are attracted to types of food that are not good for us: we are, in our most basics form, built from a collection of impulses and instincts for surviving – we will eat as much as we can, if it is available and accessible.  Again, in our most basic form of being, you can call it animalistic behavior.

However, we can go beyond these instincts and choose what we want to be, beginning with choosing the right food and the right combination of food: we are what we eat.

How to achieve that? Instincts are from your brain, which often contradicts what your body is really telling you. Knowing what is good for you to eat is learning to listen to your body: food going through your system lives its impression in it. Yes!  Your conscious mind knows, is aware and remembers only a fraction of what is really going on, but your body remembers much more, if not everything. Once you listen to your body, and not to the cravings created by your mind (stimulated by commercials, and such, you will know what is good for your own diet, and reach to a state of balanced body, emotion, spirit and mind, which nutrition is a crucial component of these 4 aspects to be balanced.

I am going to share here what I know and what I am currently studying, for my friends who wish to delve into a better health by improving their diet.

This is by no means any kind of science teaching, but a collection of suggestions from me. As I am myself in the path of “enlightenment” or what I called earlier balanced body, emotion, spirit and mind.  I invite you to walk with me and discover what is good for yourself.  Allow me to share with you my knowledge of five years of studying Chinese medicine, eastern nutrition and some more years from the University of Life. The subjects will not come in order “by the book”, but will be a collection of tips and formulas I discover along the road and along the four seasons.

Food combinations -

Tip #1 - Protein, Fats & Starches combined best with Green vegetables.

Proteins, like cheese milk yogurt, nuts, seed (with lots of oil), combined very good with green vegetables. 

People who suffer from sensetive digestive system and specifically senetive to meat products will feel a big difference when taking large amounts of greens at the same time of eating their meat. 

Btw, it is important to eat the high fat proteins first in the meal.  These high proteins like, nuts, legumes, seeds, and animal products use the biggest amount of stomach acids, much more than straches for example.  If proteins are eaten after straches, the secretion of acids will not be suficient for the proteins.

Proteins are hard to digest, especially from animal origin since any animal protein will contain a substential amount of fat, which will impair the digestion of the protein.  Over consumption of animal protein is one of the major causes of disease in the west and other contries where it is consumed largly. 

This is far worse if the meat is fried or made with oils.  The combination of steak fried on the pan can really harm one's digestive system.

After a meal like that one should be aware that in his/her body there will be substential amounts of excess urea, uric acid, fatty deposits and mucus.  Also feeling of heaviness and might even be feeling of burn in the stomach.  A good way to see that excess in one's body is by looking at the urine which will be foamy and won't desolve very fast into the toilet water.

So, to conclude this tip, eat as less meat at you can, take your protein from other sources, and eat with any protein  lots of green vegetables.