Archive for Food Revolution
Omega 3 Fatty Acids
Posted by: | CommentsDo we get enough exercise? Do we have simple ways to decrease the stress we feel in our muscles? Can we reduce joint pain?
Somatics exercises is one avenue we can all use to keep our living movement system free from a lot of the aches and pains that many people endure. We can also enhance and complement our life with a diet richer in omega 3 fatty acids.
Where do I find Omega 3 Fatty Acids?
If you’re into keeping your brain healthy, your mind sharp, and moving well, then a diet rich in omega 3 fatty acids will also calm your mood too.
When we eat certain nuts, seeds and wild fish like salmon, tuna & sardines our body tends to build up resiliency instead of breaking down when we eat processed foods.
Did you know that 90% of Americans are low on the intake of omega 3 fatty acids?
Since our bodies can’t produce it, we’ve got to include a rich source of it through what we eat.
Increasing the amount of omega 3 fatty acids can help with lowering the risk of heart disease, reducing the risk of cancer and increasing our low levels of energy.
Our heart, eyes and even the immune system can be optimized by a proper intake of omega 3 fatty acids.
What is the right level of omega 3 fatty acids?
Well I don’t know but the people looking into this like Dr. Mark Hyman who will appear on the Dr. Oz show this week will talk about a test created by Dr. William Harris who is an expert on omega 3 fatty acids on human health.
Dr. Harris has created an at home test called the Omega Quant HS-Omega-3 Index.
Now there’s a mouthful but I hear the health problems we encounter are sometime easier to fix and reverse than we think.
Often times people are very surprised with the simple somatics exercises. Their minds are literally boggled at how such simple movements can be so profound. Could the fork we use be another tool?
Simple Diet Change with Omega 3 Fatty Acids
Same thing goes with our diet. OK, I know some of us love to eat the stuff we think is food and it can be daunting to give it up.
But what if you could help prevent asthma, improve blood sugar levels to protect you from diabetes and slow down the decline associated with Alzheimer’s just by changing your diet a little.
You can take the test and find out for yourself if Doctor’s Harris, Hyman and Oz are onto something beneficial for you.
Somatics which is defined as the body experienced from within not only relates to how well or not well we feel when we move or not move, it also has to do with paying attention to the signals our bodies generate from what we put into it too.
Dr. Mark Hyman may tell you that your fork can be your friend or enemy and one of the important tools when it comes to your health and well-being.
Check out your omega 3 fatty acids profile.
Dairy Free Contest
Posted by: | CommentsDo you have a story about being dairy free?
Pamela Ziemann, the author of Giving Voice to Your Cause, is having a video contest.
Just tell your story on giving up milk or dairy and you’ll have a chance to win some prizes.
Dairy Free Video Contest
How has being dairy free impacted your life?
Get out the your video cam and just tell your story.
Pamela grew up in dairy country and even had to be a real live dairy princess and she didn’t even like milk.
It took me years, well decades to make the change and all I can say is that I breathe easier and feel incredibly less congested than I did growing up.
Dairy Free Prizes
Pamela is giving away some cool prizes.
The video contest doesn’t begin until August 17th, so you can get the jump on everybody else.
She has a video on how to do a video… and being yourself on video if you haven’t ever made a video.
Dairy Free Stories
Go ahead tell the world what you’ve discovered about living without dairy.
How has your life changed and what did you have to go through to be dairy free?
Don’t wait too long, the dairy free video contest ends on September 21st.
The sugar that kills
Posted by: | CommentsSugar is sugar. So they say.
Watching young athletes consume the overdose of sweetened drinks makes me wonder who will I get to play with when I am older. Will we lose still more people to the excess and addiction road we’ve unconsciously taken ourselves down?
Not being able to sense ourselves internally may also be a blunting of our self by what we eat. Can things go out of kilter without our awareness?
Dr. Mark Hyman, has written the 5 Reasons Why High Fructose Corn Syrup Will Kill You.
Did you know that mercury has been found in what we’ve been told is sugar?
Can heart disease, cancer, liver failure and tooth decay be stopped by the tooth fairy?
Will consuming more of this fake sugar improve our ability to be healthy or will we react with inflammation and wonder why all our other healthy activities aren’t enough?
Processing information internally is what somatics is about. The body experienced from within is hugely affected by what we think, how well or not well we move, and certainly from what we eat or don’t eat.
If you’re one of those people adding 140 pounds of sugar per year to your diet, then obviously you’ve advanced civilization since our hunter-gatherer ancestors consumed 20 teaspoons per year. Of course, they also walked on average 4 hours per day.
Quantity and quality affects our internal sense or blunts it out. Furthering our lack of awareness until the pains of our body shows up in interesting ways.
Most nutrition experts agree that sugar isn’t sugar despite what we’ve told.
Our kids on the other hand, think we’re crazy when we tell them this “stuff” because when they look around and see they can get a beverage right at school. What kind of learning message does this signal?
Even the teachers are being duped and we have to be the parents always saying no since every week there is too much sugar being given freely without understanding the consequences of the disease and epidemic of obesity by trying to please children and being fed mis-leading information.
For the sake of the young athlete and child, there are many more beneficial ways to help them live a good life, otherwise, people like myself will have job security since we already have enough people dis-empowered with poor health choices.
Read why fake sugar kills and pass it on.
Self-regulation and sugar
Posted by: | CommentsAt the heart of somatics is the notion of self-regulation. The practice of somatics, of sensing our self internally allows us to use the simple tools of pandiculating, aka somatics exercises to regulate our feelings of well-being.
Some of this is hampered by the accumulation of what we eat or drink.
Our senses can be in disarray, so efforts towards health are like moving 1 step forwards and 2 steps back at times.
Firing on all healthy cylinders may seem like a lot of work with all the seemingly conflicting information, yet once we get back on track… all those efforts pay the dividends of living an easier life internally.
We can see when our functions are deteriorating. We can feel, if we’re lucky enough, to be sensitive to the thing which are amiss. Yet we all have the power to change… we just need some information, helping hands, and actions to get us there.
At sporting events of our children, let alone the ones I still enjoy at age 50, I continue to see how athletes and people wanting to be athletes are moving backwards… though they may think they are doing the right thing.
The drinking of sports fluids filled with sugar to give us energy so we can play and compete may be taking us down a road we don’t need to travel on. I remember as a young athlete filling up my water bottle with sugar and feeling the surge of energy.
So naturally, I added more to supposedly power me… when I ate those cherry colored balls of candy between side changes in tennis, I thought that was giving myself the extra oomph I needed at age 17.
Along the way, I discovered that merely drinking water is about the best sports drink I could have ever had… along with eating healthy… even though there is conflicting information that all of us have to decipher our way through as information changes and is updated.
So back to our senses which can serve us through feedback mechanisms which are subtle at times and yet can be temporarily be altered.
These temporary, yet seemingly ongoing blocks, hindrances, blindspots can be opened through a change in what we know by acting with self-regulation until we discover we may need to tweak ourself again and again and again… which isn’t as hard as it sounds.
Taking one step is a step in a direction which will serve us so we can rest easier when everyone else is worrying about rising health care costs… we can tweak ourself now and not get caught up in that later.
This rather lengthy video maybe an eye opener to parents who let children munch those sugar drinks for a perceived oomph on the competitors.
Regulating sugar intake may not be easy… so please watch this.
For a shorter version, check this out.
Somatic thoughts on Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Posted by: | CommentsSomatics is defined as the body experienced from within. Thomas Hanna coined this term which not only relates to movement as is taught in Hanna Somatic Education®, it also relates to our entire being.
While I normally comment on movement as a key to well-being. Moving to the refrigerator and in the grocery store or sitting down for a prepared meal in a restaurant is another part of a strategy to well-being.
If you’re loading yourself up on packaged foods and expect your body to move well… please try it again and see if you get the same result. I applaud the efforts of Jamie Oliver’s television show and his intent to plant seeds to improve not only how school children eat… it’s a lesson for us big kids too.
Moving well also requires you to nourish your being with food that gives you positive energy and one of the simplest of foods is merely drinking clean and healthy water.
Lack of hydration, ill nourishment and medication, both legal and illegal will take you away from moving well as nature intends, otherwise, all the pandiculators, the healthy vertebrate animals would be in a mess too. Some of them are on account of what they have access to as well as your children and the community you live in.
I know when I travel and can’t get organic food, I’m in a literal bind, which thankfully only lasts for a small duration and when I discover areas which have co-ops and healthy restaurants which I even discovered in Sin City, Las Vegas in a soccer tournament I was competing in…
My hope is that Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution will re-spark what so many have come to understand how food is delivered to children at school, what is available at the grocery store, and what we ingest as fast food.
Healthy minds thrive on good food, physical activity, great relationships and the inner feeling of connectedness. This is somatics. To move with intelligence is our birthright as is evidenced by how we pandiculated in our mother’s womb. To continue to move well is fostered by this intelligent act of pandiculation.
To eat well is a choice to wield another and further intelligence to allow us to move, think and act freely with a consciousness promoting well-being for all of us. Our health care reform moves onward when we all participate in promoting well-being and practicing it… and modeling it for all children.
It’s not always easy to take the time to prepare a good meal, move with intelligence, think clearly and act in a positive manner… but when the seed is planted and we repeat the simple practice of hygiene in all it’s varied forms, then we truly progress to living life as easy and as well as it can be.
It’s an effort that is well rewarded with feelings of pleasure, confidence, and self-actualization. Life is simple… eat well, move well, think well, be well. The paths can be varied, overlap and your somatics sense of yourself will feel and know it. It’s just practice and revolutions such as Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution remind us of our greatness, our capacity to feel it, and that desire which calls us to move forward.
