D_Glenn wrote:Try to make a topic of this but I just want to rant about how messed up the western diet has become. The worst example would probably be how overweight people opt out of eating a good 'hot' meal or foods that increase our metabolism and instead go for the extremely 'cold' green salad which essentially shuts the thryoid down, lowers the metabolism, and starts a whole cycle of damage to the spleen which is normally responsible for our natural healthy cravings but when damaged begins to continue cycle of craving more cold foods and raw sugars.
salad, grapefruit - cold
egg whites- cool
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/lifestyles ... d_tcm.html
http://www.ehow.com/video_4942003_tradi ... nergy.html
Eat the complete opposite of the western "weight-loss" diet and one might actually lose some weight.
Chew your food as the saliva indentifies the food in your mouth and tells the body which enzymes to put into the stomach. Don't drink large amounts of 'ice cold' beverages while eating, preferably no liquids as they dilute the stomach acids. If you have to drink then make sure it's something more acidic. Don't ever take any antacids anytime close to a meal and ideally never take them.
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Darth Rock&Roll wrote:too much supposition for me.
What studies exactly show these things to be occurring?
This is my principle misgiving with many things TCM.
IE: there isn't a lot of actual good science behind it and a lot of guessing or attribution given to a process or a substance based upon a perceived result instead of an actual look at what happened, what changed, what actually occurred.
Not enough science in TCM quite frankly. I (and many accredited and adpet doctors) don't give it a lot of cred really.
Physician heal thyself has equal validity.
People are fat because they eat too much and don't move enough. Because they eat to alleviate boredom or to quell emotional surges.
You will find more fat people in abundant societies. The so called "west" will only naturally have a lot of obese people for that reason alone.
"ALL of science is guessing or attribution given to a process or a substance based on a percieved result."
D_Glenn wrote:What works for a male is obviously going to be different then for a female. Summer, winter, spring, fall--- all different. Heat, cold, dry, damp. There is certainly no simple answer but there is a common link to obesity which in some cases could be the spleen disorder resulting in lack of craving for proteins with an increase in craving for sugars or the opposite which would be a stomach disorder. You could look at the spleen and stomach as opposites, spleen prefers warmth, stomach likes it cool. Men are naturally warmer, women colder so that should be taken into account. Cold in some cases could refer to raw foods as well as the enzymes in the food aren't activated so one has to rely on their bodies own. Also note that the pancreas(enzymes) is part of the spleen's function in tcm, and the spleen also has a secondary control of the gallbladder(fat emulsifier for fats in the gut). So 'function' of the spleen isn't just the actual organ in the western sense.
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Deduction:
Rule - All the beans from this bag are white.
Case - These beans are from this bag.
Result - These beans are white.
Induction:
Case - These beans are from this bag.
Result - These beans are white.
Rule - All the beans from this bag are white.
Abduction:
Rule - All the beans from this bag are white.
Result - These beans are white.
Case - These beans are from this bag.
If you think about this a bit you can see that with deduction there is no possibility of error and no possibility of novelty. In going from the general to the specific it must follow that the beans are white. With induction there is a possibility of error as well as correctness in our guessing. Each drawing out of a white bean is a new confirmation of our guess while the drawing out a differently colored bean would be really novel. The general rule would be invalidated with a singularly different result. But we are justified in making the guess because in every result so far the beans have been white. While the probability is high for all the beans being white it is by no means certain. With abduction the guess stands the greatest chance of being in error but with it comes the possibility of the greatest creative leap. Here, unlike in induction, we conclude without any prior evidence that the beans are from the bag. We have a Rule, All the beans... ; we have a Result, These beans are ... ; and we guess the Case, These beans are from this bag. That's the guess. Peirce considered one of the greatest abductions of all time to belong to the astronomer Kepler. With abduction one invents context for content. In Kepler's case he initiated a new world view.
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