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Nutrition
There's a growing tendency to accept the role of diet in an individual's quality of life. As a matter of fact, certain dietary habits cause as much as others prevent a wide variety of organic disorders. Although most illnesses are considered multifactorial, food plays a very important role in the way many of them takes over the human body.
The human body is the most amazing "machine" in the world. However, most people don't provide it the high-quality fuel it deserves. If a machine does not get the proper fuel and maintenance how long is it expected to work for under good health conditions?
Basically, a diet rich in vegetal food (whole grains, nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits) protects against many chronic and degenerative diseases very usual in the western world. On the contrary, a non-vegetable diet helps to the progression of such illnesses and prepare the field to the action of other risk factors.
An individual dietary assessment must be included in a good medical practice. However, it is underestimated by today's health system due to the little time devoted by a normal ambulatory service.
Healing with food is not haphazard. Food acts according to its various therapeutic properties, although its properties are often less specific and its actions less drastic than those of herbs or other medicines. Food also acts as a foundation medicine. It is sometimes slower to take effect, by more profoundly affects all systems of the body. If diet is used correctly for prevention and treatment, other medicines are required less, if at all.
What is quite clear is a Universal diet does not exist: balance in diet is unique for each person. To find balance, it is helpful to know not only one's own needs and the properties of foods, but the correct preparation, and to exercise skill in eating by not overeating, by choosing high-quality foods, avoiding too many food combinations, and by knowing a broad range of nutritious foods including the chlorophyll-rich plants, the best sources of certain fatty acids, the least dangerous of the concentrated sweeteners, and so on.
As a whole, the best foods to use as a basis for long-term balance are complex carbohydrates. One finds them in traditional diets throughout the world. Each one has unique healing attributes. They include grains, earth and sea vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds, and the many products made from these. Fruits, which are cleansing "simple carbohydrates", play a role that depends on the person's health, constitution, the climate and the degree of need for purification. To represent this diet, we use the term "grains and vegetables", since they are the most widely used of the carbohydrates.
In recent years, numerous studies have detailed the benefits of grains and vegetables and of the complex carbohydrates in general. A quality of these foods, expressed by the term "fiber", has become somewhat celebrated because of its powers of disease prevention and renewal. In addition, the foods in this group offer ample protein as well as a variety of vitamins and minerals, much more nutrition than is generally acknowledged.
Let us consider wheat grain before it is milled into flour. This whole wheat seeds can comprise dozens of minerals and microminerals if grown in rich soil. They can also contain immunoprotective phytonutrients as well as vitamins and precious oils. In refining, as is done in the milling of wheat berries to obtain white flour used in common pastries, donuts, pastas, and breads, the majority of these nutrients are lost. Of the lost minerals, two are very important: selenium and magnesium.
Something is clear: food is not separate from mind. When food is seen as an object separate form other aspects of our personality, we create imbalance regardless of the quality of the food. However, if spiritual inclination comes first, food and other objects become its reflections. This suggests that food becomes an ultimate medicine when we recognize it as a facet of our Mind.
The major religions teach this level of unity between food and mind, even if the teachings have been subverted or forgotten. They also advise against extreme dietary practices. Concerning the use of meat, there are few absolute prohibitions against it. Christ and Buddha were both known for their extensive fasting. Although neither explicitly forbade meat eating, Buddha recommended that flesh animal products, pungent plants, and intoxicants not be used by those wanting to cultivate "the Way" because of their effects on consciousness. For similar reasons, the dietary restrictions that Christ regularly taught, primarily through example, were characterized by fasting and prayer.
"The spirit teaches about correct diet and good diet supports spiritual practice"