Sunday, September 22, 2013

Turning into 67. Reflection #4. Life saving life style changes

The most important life style changes is that I stick to Joe Furman's diet almost religiously to improve my digestion system.  Furman's diet is stricter than the ordinary vegetarian diet.  A vegetarian diet, the dieter can eat pasta, breakfast cereal, or bread and bagel.  Not for Furman's diet. According to Furman's, theses refined starch substances is no different from table sugar, can produce havoc to buddy's  insulin regulation producing body's inflammatory response.

My regular diet for breakfast:  Kefir/yoguart(plane)/home-made sauerkraut/garlic, as aside dish;  steel-cut oat meal with sweat pepper, berries, tomatoes, grapes,and avocado as the main dish.   Lunch will be a big salad with greens, carrots, sweet peppers, berries, grapes, apple, nuts, and avocado.  Dinner will be primarily cooked vegetable.  Sometimes, I would have egg and fish.

When I disclosed this diet plan to one of my tennis buddy, he laughed at me saying that diet was a typical 'rabbit food.'  Yes, maybe it is a 'rabbit food'.  But rabbits don't get cancer, type-2 diabetics or heart attack like us.  Many studies have shown convincingly, a vegetable-fruit-probiotic based food saves lives as they have been documented in the citations of Dr. Furman's books, "Eat to Live" and "Super Immunity".  I do not know whether this diet will eliminate my precancerous conditions in the stomach.  However, I do see clearly two positive outcomes:  (1) My seasoning allergy symptoms are greatly reduced since I adopt this diet.  (2) My antibiotic-resistant H Pylori is gone, at least for now.

Other important life style changes is that I incorporate meditation into daily routine.  There are many meditation CD available in the market.  Listening to these meditation music in a quiet environment can effectively quiet our busy mind.  No one can dispute mind-body connection with the good health.

  

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