Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 "We are a society obsessed with the harmful effects of eating," I hope that this discussion on soy has a happy ending...with some solutions and constructive advice on what to do rather than what not to do. It is important to eat healthy foods but it is also important to eat what you eat in a healthy way. I go into grocery stores and there are over 40,000 choices. No wonder I am a bit overwhelmed. This is the gastronomic equivalent of having too much time on our hands. (check out article at http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1175/n2_v31/21280054/p1/article.jhtml?term= I have learned to approach food in much the same way as one might approach yoga. There is a lot of good info in the ayurvedic publications. Deepak Chopra has covered it pretty well in "Magical Mind, Magical Body" in which the six taste sensations are described and what you must do to balance your being through these sensations. If any of you want to download this, go get the download tool at www.winmx.com. Do a search for Deepak Chopra and "Magical Mind, Magical Body" and look for the chapter on (Eating for Balance and Aroma) on my server. My user name is either Dharam or Aleph. Email me to make sure I am online. "For all our abundance, for all the time we spend talking and thinking about food (we now have a cooking channel and the TV Food Network, with celebrity interviews and a game show), our feelings for this necessity of necessities are oddly mixed. The fact is, Americans worry about food -- not whether we can get enough, but whether we are eating too much. Or whether what we eat is safe. Or whether it causes diseases, promotes brain longevity, has antioxidants, or too much fat, or not enough of the right fat. Or contributes to some environmental injustice. Or is a breeding ground for lethal microbes. "We are a society obsessed with the harmful effects of eating," grouses Paul Rozin, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a pioneer in the study of why we eat the things we eat. "We've managed to turn our feelings about making and eating food -- one of our most basic, important, and meaningful pleasures -- into ambivalence." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 Lois, I am forwarding a comment about Deepak Chopra. I always thought his seminars were very expensive for a deeply spiritual person. Love Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 Hi Dharam, What's your URL? If I do a search on "Magical Mind, Magical body", I come up with far too many pages and I have no idea which is yours. Just a note on the Japanese diet as far as soy is concerned. The idea that they eat large amounts of Soy milk or Tofu is actually false. The Japanese traditional diet does, however, contain a good amount of fermented soy, these being Miso, Nato (which is traditionally eaten every morning for breakfast) and tamari. They also include various seaweeds in their cooking and, I believe, that this is thee most important factor in their health. Seaweed is a very healing food and contains basically all of the minerals that a body needs to function well. The inclusion of tea, especially forms of green, is also another factor to consider being that tea has been proven to prevent disease such as cancer and is very high in antioxidants. With the exception of fast food giants pushing their way into all and every culture at an alarming rate, traditional japanese diets have rather small amounts of animal products in them which, again, gives us more insight into why this culture has less disease and more centurians than any other recorded culture. For an interesting read, seek out "The Okinawa Program" by Bradley J. Willcox. Sat Nam, Kelly >Dharam Singh <dharam >Kundaliniyoga >Kundaliniyoga >Re: Soy anxiety >Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:37:48 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [216.115.96.51] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBE0D89A1001E400431D2D8736033AB3D147; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:39:45 >-0800 >Received: from [216.115.97.163] by n1. with NNFMP; 15 Jan >2002 14:38:05 -0000 >Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 15 Jan 2002 14:38:03 -0000 >Received: (qmail 95436 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2002 14:38:02 -0000 >Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m9.grp.snv. with QMQP; >15 Jan 2002 14:38:02 -0000 >Received: from unknown (HELO chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net) (24.147.1.153) by >mta3.grp.snv. with SMTP; 15 Jan 2002 14:38:02 -0000 >Received: from sahej.com (h004854224210.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.197.29])by >chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0FEc0G27248for ><Kundaliniyoga>; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:38:00 -0500 (EST) >From sentto-46072-8379-1011105484-kurij Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:41:29 -0800 >X-eGroups-Return: >sentto-46072-8379-1011105484-kurij=hotmail.com >X-Sender: dharam >X-Apparently-Kundaliniyoga >Message-ID: <3C443EBC.ADE9133E >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >References: <F63BAHtxI5HecUqKy8x00005474 >X--Profile: dharam_smurph >Mailing-List: list Kundaliniyoga; contact >Kundaliniyoga-owner >Delivered-mailing list Kundaliniyoga >Precedence: bulk >List-Un: <Kundaliniyoga> > >"We are a society obsessed with the harmful effects of eating," > >I hope that this discussion on soy has a happy ending...with some solutions >and constructive advice on what to do rather than what not to do. It >is important to eat healthy foods but it is also important to eat what you >eat in a healthy way. I go into grocery stores and there are over >40,000 choices. No wonder I am a bit overwhelmed. This is the gastronomic >equivalent of having too much time on our hands. (check out article at >http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1175/n2_v31/21280054/p1/article.jhtml?term= > > I have learned to approach food in much the same way as one might >approach yoga. There is a lot of good info in the ayurvedic publications. >Deepak Chopra has covered it pretty well in "Magical Mind, Magical Body" in >which the six taste sensations are described and what you must do to >balance your being through these sensations. If any of you want to download >this, go get the download tool at www.winmx.com. Do a search for >Deepak Chopra and "Magical Mind, Magical Body" and look for the chapter on >(Eating for Balance and Aroma) on my server. My user name is either >Dharam or Aleph. >Email me to make sure I am online. > > >"For all our abundance, for all the time we spend talking and > thinking about food (we now have a cooking channel and the TV Food >Network, with > celebrity interviews and a game show), our feelings for this necessity of >necessities are > oddly mixed. The fact is, Americans worry about food -- not whether we >can get enough, > but whether we are eating too much. Or whether what we eat is safe. Or >whether it causes > diseases, promotes brain longevity, has antioxidants, or too much fat, or >not enough of the > right fat. Or contributes to some environmental injustice. Or is a >breeding ground for lethal > microbes. "We are a society obsessed with the harmful effects of eating," >grouses Paul > Rozin, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania >and a pioneer in the > study of why we eat the things we eat. "We've managed to turn our >feelings about making > and eating food -- one of our most basic, important, and meaningful >pleasures -- into > ambivalence." > > > > > > ///(*_*)\\\ _______________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 Kundaliniyoga, Dharam Singh <dharam@s...> wrote: > I have learned to approach food in much the same way as one might approach yoga. There is a lot of good info in the ayurvedic publications. > Deepak Chopra has covered it pretty well in "Magical Mind, Magical Body" in which the six taste sensations are described and what you must do to > balance your being through these sensations. If any of you want to download this, go get the download tool at www.winmx.com. Do a search for > Deepak Chopra and "Magical Mind, Magical Body" and look for the chapter on (Eating for Balance and Aroma) on my server. I don't mean to be badmouthing here, but there is an issue with credibilty regarding Deepak Chopra. I happen to live in the same city as he deos, and I see him around quite often. Over the last four years I have seen him gain quite a bit of weight, HUGE bags under his eyes (encrusted with wrinkles), and- he's not very nice when your not in one of his offices. I think the man is simply a parrot making a fast buck off of genuine teachings. BTW- it costs over $500 US to be evaluated at his little center, and you don't even get to see him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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