Freedom Is Just Another Word for Control

Published on Thursday, April 2, 2009, by Lessley Anderson / Edit Post

Recently I decided to give up drinking alcohol and excessive amounts of vending machine coffee for two weeks, so I could actually sleep through the night and not feel like a bloated zombie all the time. I picked up a new book, Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide by Myra Lewin. The author is a yoga teacher and Ayurvedic consultant in Hawaii, and she writes about how to break old patterns of emotional overeating of unhealthy foods, and establish conscious control over what you put in your body. I learned some great tips I’ve been putting to use:

• Don’t eat more than you can hold in your two hands at any one time.
• Wait at least two hours in between snacks or meals before eating again, to give your last round of food a chance to digest.
•Breathe, chew your food well, don’t eat too fast. Slow down.
• Don’t eat when you’re angry or upset, even if it means missing a meal.

In the back of the book are some great healthy recipes, some of which are Indian-inspired. One, Roots and Greens, is exactly what I always want to eat: Indian spices, kale, a little ghee, and shredded carrots and beets. I wish Lewin would do an entire cookbook!

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  • I just reread part of this, mlz. You say you got well BECAUSE you refused the RXs. Maybe you just got well and would have regardless. That happens regularly.

  • marvinlzinn, could you cite something - anything - other than your personal anecdotes? Something scientific? Could it be you're the only one with this *power*? alanbarnes seemed to have given a lot of facts rather than just opinions.

    To me this gets into that fuzzy area where, if someone followed your (medical) advice and died, then does that make you responsible? YOU refused treatments and...+READ

    marvinlzinn, could you cite something - anything - other than your personal anecdotes? Something scientific? Could it be you're the only one with this *power*? alanbarnes seemed to have given a lot of facts rather than just opinions.

    To me this gets into that fuzzy area where, if someone followed your (medical) advice and died, then does that make you responsible? YOU refused treatments and were cured. Are you recommending that for others? I certainly hope not.-COLLAPSE

  • But apparently the brain damage was permanent.

  • Then you probably also believe in drugs that United States doctors prescribe. If I did, I would never have eliminated all disase that I had. I got well when no doctor believed possible because I refused their prescriptions. This also means chemicals developed by money-god worshipers for farmers to use also turn food into poison. Had I not learned that, from which I refused both drug prescriptions...+READ

    Then you probably also believe in drugs that United States doctors prescribe. If I did, I would never have eliminated all disase that I had. I got well when no doctor believed possible because I refused their prescriptions. This also means chemicals developed by money-god worshipers for farmers to use also turn food into poison. Had I not learned that, from which I refused both drug prescriptions and much hosptial food given to me from an injury, I would also have died when no doctor expected me to live five minutes.

    I dare not believe any majority when I constantly prove them wrong.-COLLAPSE

  • "Raw food is usually better, but additions and cooking are needed to counteract the damage caused by something added (mostly chemicals or something never designed to be eaten)."

    Nonsense. With a large number of foods, cooking is a good idea because it makes nutrients available. Most grains and legumes have minimal nutritional value when they're raw, and some (eg kidney beans) are even toxic...+READ

    "Raw food is usually better, but additions and cooking are needed to counteract the damage caused by something added (mostly chemicals or something never designed to be eaten)."

    Nonsense. With a large number of foods, cooking is a good idea because it makes nutrients available. Most grains and legumes have minimal nutritional value when they're raw, and some (eg kidney beans) are even toxic until they've been cooked.

    "But if all available food would be organic, and no contrary chemicals available more than God created, there would be no prostate cancer prevention needed."

    Also nonsense. Cancers existed long before non-organic agriculture was invented. As long as people have been writing, they have been documenting the occurrence of cancer; for example, Egyptian papyrii from the Old Kingdom describe breast tumors. Cancers have been recovered from human remains that date back to the Bronze Age. And Hippocrates is credited with being the first physician to distinguish between benign and malignant tumors.

    Hesiod's "Works and Days" and Xenophon's "Economy" contain detailed descriptions of ancient Greek agricultural methods. Those methods did not even involve the addition of manure to crops, but instead relied on plowing plant matter back into the soil after a fallow period. No "contrary chemicals" (whatever that means) were added to the food, but people still got cancer.-COLLAPSE

  • Raw food is usually better, but additions and cooking are needed to counteract the damage caused by something added (mostly chemicals or something never designed to be eaten).

    If not otherwise obvious, I test three times to be sure I am correct.

    Example: Even labled "Organic" is not necessarily safe. I found out that organic ice cream had a very good flavor and seemed to be healthy. Guar...+READ

    Raw food is usually better, but additions and cooking are needed to counteract the damage caused by something added (mostly chemicals or something never designed to be eaten).

    If not otherwise obvious, I test three times to be sure I am correct.

    Example: Even labled "Organic" is not necessarily safe. I found out that organic ice cream had a very good flavor and seemed to be healthy. Guar gum, Lotus Bean gum, or other thickners, are added to cut cost and make thicker and creamy. But all the these also increase my PSA test which is used to predict potential cancer. Now I use only the "Perfect Flavor" brand. It is pure cream, all organic, and any flavor I choose.-COLLAPSE

  • This advice sounds like a person with an eating disorder describing their eating disorder.

  • Are you saying that if we all ate raw food then there would be no disease?

  • But if all available food would be organic, and no contrary chemicals available more than God created, there would be no prostate cancer prevention needed.

  • Well, marvinizinn, I'd agree with you on many foods. However, some foods are actually improved with cooking. Tomatoes, for example, contain Lycopene - a prostate cancer preventative. The level of Lycopene in tomatoes increases when they are cooked.

  • Well, marvinizinn, I'd agree with you on many foods. However, some foods are actually improved with cooking. Tomatoes, for example, contain Lycopene - a cancer preventative. The level of Lycopene in tomatoes increases when they are cooked.

  • All of those things are correct, but I would add one more:

    Eat what you can find as close to the way God made it. NO change by any human can make it any better.