Anti-Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood,
Health, Behaviour and Learning
By Brenda Sampson
WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR FOOD
From "The Universe is a Green Dragon; a cosmic creation story" by Brian Swimme, physicist and cosmologist, published by Bear & Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Our relationship toward food is simply wrong. Instead of eating the natural foods Earth has created over eons of subtle experimentation, we stuff ourselves with fake junk put out by multinationals with less knowledge of the Earth than could be stuffed into an empty peanut shell, resulting in cancer, heart disease, and all the needless suffering associated with folly. We need to realize that, from a biological point of view, eating is remembering. Why? Because food is rich in the information our bodies need. Through hundreds of millions of years, life forms learned to feed on each other. This means more than supplying fuel. It means supplying the informed sequences of molecules, and amino acids required for our development. Our bodies wait for, expect a particular spectrum of foods. Not just anything will do. Particular molecular compounds are required, those that were fashioned by the millions of years of creative experimentation.
Youth "But how is eating remembering?"
Thomas "Many of our physiological patterns of activity depend on certain complex chemicals provided by natural foods. The physiological processes are the way the body remembers its ancestral heritage, and this heritage insists on particular natural foods for its remembering. When you eat grains, legumes and good, fresh meat and vegetables, you enable your body to remember its powers."
"It is similar to what happens when you leaf through an old photo album. The pictures key in all sorts of memories, and you are flooded with the past coming alive within you. That's what eating is like. The foods enable patterns of activity to start up. If we understood that food was memory, we would stop our miserable eating habits."
DON'T LET GET-RICH-QUICK MONEY-MAKERS MAKE A SUCKER OUT OF YOU
It has been said that the quickest way to make money is to cater for a vice. A vice is a tool for holding a piece of wood or metal firmly while the carpenter or metalworker does what he wants with it. Or a vice is a habit that holds a person firmly while the money maker does what he wants; i.e. extracts money from the person, daily, weekly, monthly, for year after year. Examples: tea, coffee, alcohol, Coke habits, tobacco, drugs, added caffeine, soft drinks, sugar and sugary foods, chocolate, candy bars, cream buns and cakes, drug habit, glue habit.
All of these become habits through addiction. An addiction forms when we take something into the body that is poisonous to it. The body is stimulated by the poison to get rid of it, and the stimulation feels good because one of the elements in the stimulation is temporarily to pour adrenalin into the blood, which raises the blood glucose. This effect is temporary and is followed by a low sugar level which makes people feel tired, depressed, irritable; so they go back for the fix that made them feel good and bingo! Up goes the sugar level and an addiction is set in train.
A bad habit can be overcome with faith and courage. If you want to be strong, consider the kauri tree; it is the strongest tree in the forest. Rata cannot smother it because it sheds its bark every year. If you want to be strong, shed a bad habit every year!
To help yourself, say "I am an eternal, everlasting non smoker," (or non cake and biscuit eater, or whatever). Sooner or later it will come true. If your children see that you value mental, physical and spiritual health and wholeness, enough to sacrifice an addiction to achieve them, this will help them to withstand the temptations and addictions of teenage years. For more information about shedding addictions, see OVERCOMING ALCOHOL/TOBACCO CRAVING
