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Diet – Fat or Fiction
With so much information in the public domain about food and dieting and what we should and shouldn’t eat, is it any wonder people are left confused about their choices? Is any of this stuff really bad for you? How can some people eat the same diet as you and remain slender? Is that burger and chips going straight to your hips?
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You may have seen Disney’s Oscar Nominated feature about a small cleaner robot called Wall-E. It starts in a bleak and silent looking future of rubbish and early 20th Century musical nostalgia, and swiftly moves onto a mobile yet bed ridden society taking their sustenance in liquidised form. I didn’t find it very cheery, and no doubt the kids didn’t either. Come on Disney, what happened to Bambi and Snow White? Has everyone lost hope?
Then there are the press offerings of obese people, so fat they have to be winched out of bed, or children who weight more in stones than their age. These examples are not commonplace, but they do exist, and spur people into action. So they blame the food, our 21st century diet, ‘where did it all go wrong?’ they ask. Governments look to step in and legislate and warn people about the dangers, making the situation worse
The majority of people need to rethink the issue. When they observe the world, how it is changing, what they believe causes what (according to the latest study). As they think these thoughts chronically, they from beliefs, and then end up living those beliefs, as the world responds to them.
When you were young, you may have known someone who grew up in a family whose parents never discussed money, always felt good about it, and didn’t worry about not having enough, even if they weren’t what you might call rich. A child in this situation will learn a good money vibration, which will serve them well for the rest of their life.
While it may also be true that other subjects in the family home are less beneficial. If your parents’ relationship was not good, or their feelings toward each other not good, you may find yourself unknowingly picking up those vibrations and carrying them into your adult life. The reason I suppose they say we marry people like our parents.
We take our cues from the world around us, our caretakers, peers, friends, church members, and the aspects of society to which we are exposed, all contribute to our beliefs. No two people have lived the same experience and hold exactly the same beliefs on all subjects.
So in the 21st Century it is amazing that so much attention is given to the contributory factors such as diet and lifestyle choices, when what matters far more is the beliefs of the person. What makes it worse is that the advice changes from year to year, leaving many people more confused than ever.
There will never be a single set of do’s and don’ts to serve all, as every individual holds different beliefs on these subjects, and therefore they affect them all in different ways. Diet, exercise, Vitamins, treatments of all kinds will have different effects on the people they are given to. There are as many ways to achieve a goal as there are people on the planet, because each person holds different beliefs.
You are wise to listen to your beliefs, however. If you feel that something is not good for you, you are wise to avoid it, because if you believe it will not benefit you, then it will not. If you believe that eating white bread makes you fat, then it will make you fat. You are living what you believe on all subjects, including diet. Yet as you look around you, you see people thriving on diets that you would never consider eating. How can this be? They clearly do not hold the same beliefs as you about those foods.
I would never say that eating a chocolate bar is better for you than say, an apple, but when society gives a dog a bad name, it serves no one, especially when the food is something that people will want to eat, and most of the ‘bad foods’ fall into that category. You body will deal with anything you give it, unless your belief contravenes, in which case it will not process the food effectively.
We are told that foods contain too much salt, carbohydrate, protein, fat, saturated fat, wrong type of fat, etc. As this list includes most of the things that you enjoy eating, what happens? You eat them all anyway, and as you believe they are bad for you, they are bad for you. Their advice is well meaning, but based on flawed reasoning and extremely counter productive.
People get fat because they believe that eating the wrong types of food that make them fat. They look at their bodies, feel bad, and feel fat, and the situation gets worse and worse. Also, in feeling bad about eating these foods, they are attracted to more of the comfort foods, which they know are bad for them, which just exacerbates the situation.
Disease, we are told, is caused by bad diet and poor lifestyle choices such as smoking and drinking excessively and lack of exercise. In fact these are merely indicators of a great underlying problem, namely how the person feels. Negative emotion or dis-ease is what lies at the root of disease. The external attributes such as smoking, drinking and eating so called unhealthy foods is just a symptom, yet even so smoking and drinking and poor diet is blamed for disease, and this is missing the point entirely. It would be like saying the car stopped because the fuel gauge reached empty, where the fuel gauge is just an indicator. The real problem was the lack of fuel in the tank.
Nobody else can tell you what will work for you, and what will not. You alone hold the answer. By gravitating towards thought and activities that make you feel better, make you feel slimmer, or healthier, or more alive, you can guarantee your health on all subjects. Eat food that makes you feel good, talk yourself into a better feeling place, find activities which give you a good feeling strong body and which are fun, find information that resonates with you and ignore the rest, and if something doesn’t feel like a good idea, it won’t benefit you at all. What you do means very little, what matters far greater is how you feel about it.
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