Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit through Eating Whole Foods by Heather Barrett Schauers
Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit by Heather Barrett Schauers
"The real purpose of attaining better physical health and longer life is not just the mere enjoyment of a pain and disease free existence, but a higher, divine purpose for which life was given to us. All endeavors toward attaining better health would be wasted efforts unless the healthy body is used as a worthy temple in which the spirit will dwell and be developed. The purpose of our lives is not just the building of beautiful bodies, but perfecting and refining our divine spirit and becoming more God-like. I wish to emphasize that there is a divine nature and purpose to all life, and that the real reason for achieving good health and building a strong, healthy body, is to prepare a way for our spiritual growth and perfection." --Paavo Airola
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Conundrum
Do I just take the good with the bad, eat a balanced meal, and take the subsequent pain "like a man"? Even the lovely 20 day Clean Out I designed for this blog and for my body does not take fat into consideration. Oils, nuts, coconut milk are just three examples that contain fat and are used abundantly in my meal plan. I would like your feedback as to what kind of diet I should try, I'm a difficult one to figure out! It's no wonder the "healthiest" eater in the world who has done "everything possible" to heal her gut and brain still can't heal.
My current dietary ideas are as follows, but as you see in parenthesis, don't completely eliminate sugar/fat.
Upon arising: Kefir (some fat some sugar but nice probiotics good for IBS)
Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs and grapefruit (cholesterol, fructose but no oil and naturally occurring sugar and fiber)
Snack: beef jerky (animal fat)
Lunch: green salad with salmon, lemon, side of blueberries, strawberries, almonds, no dressing (fish oil, almond oil, FODMAP, fructose in berries)
Snack: banana cacao coconut milk (fat in milk, sugar in milk)
Dinner: Baked potato with olive oil and spice or chives, green tea (olive oil)
Lots of "healthy" food! All whole food! No refined sugar or wheat or dairy! Lean meats! Still laced with sugar and fat, because a body is supposed to be able to process sugar and fat, and I can't make my body do it. What foods do you suggest? What has worked for other people with IBS? How do I maintain healthy blood sugar, amino acid level, mineral and vitamin balance, and not tax my system with large food molecules?
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