I hope you don't mind another perspective on the topic. While I agree about food grouping to a certain extend (although I lean more towards eating according to one's blood type), the concept of eating five or six meals a day really only works great IF you are highly active or are diabetic/hypoglycemic. It is a rather bad idea if you are not, in my opinion. My husband was a bodybuilding trainer and competitor. It was common for him to eat six meals a day due to his activity levels and building/maintaining muscle mass.
I have researched alternative health methods for over 20 years, I am my articles have been published for over 10 years, and I have about heard and seen it all over those years from the latest research and fads to the ideas from the early 1900's. I believe from my research that most adults would do better to eat only two meals a day or fast one or two days a week. Studies with animals suggest that this kind of fasting can actually prolong life and maintain better health overall.
The problem with eating so often every day is that the body does not get to rest and detoxify. Think about it! Nearly every organ in the mid to lower torso has something to do with the processing of food and the elimination of waste from food. Eating that often, even light meals, is going to make those organs work twice as much.
Eating is really an exercise in self discipline. Some people discipline themselves, but most just don't. Fasting helps one to learn self discipline in regards to eating and it also has benefits in other areas of your life. Fasting resets the metabolism, mostly because the body has had a change to throw off the toxins that blog down metabolic processes. Another benefit to fasting is that if you learn the discipline of it, you will lose weight and maintain a healthier weight as well.
I acknowledge that fasting completely without food is not medically feasible for some people, for them a juice fast may work. If one begins a fasting discipline oneself while one is healthy, many illnesses can be avoided. Most of the people in my family had Diabetes Type 2 by my age and had symptoms of hypoglycemia when they were young adults. I also had some hypoglycemic problems when I was younger, but I am convinced that fasting and eating mostly organic foods (less toxins) has cured me. I may completely avoid my family legacy or at least put it off for many years yet.Statistics: Posted by seekingmyLord — Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:31 pm
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