Rick Archer wrote: > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of bob_brigante > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bad news for Bevan > > > > I'm glad it worked out for you, and your health has greatly improved. > I guess as a last resort Bevan could go under the knife, but I would > prefer to see him locked in his room and handed 1500 calories of rice > and dahl a day... > > When I was on Purusha at MIU back in the early 80’s, I went to Bevan’s > apartment a few times to help serve at his dinner parties. He and his guests > ate very rich foods, which is why I went, because I got to gnosh some back > in the kitchen. I’ve heard that he eats that way routinely. He has always > had a well stocked larder. > According to ayurveda his body is trying to slow him down by making him eat that way. It's sort of a natural reaction. Obesity is acquired kapha. It does not mean that the person has a kapha imbalance. Excess weight can be put on by nervous eating due to excess vata (eating to calm down), excess pitta (excessive appetite) and kapha due to a sluggish metabolism. And also I think a lot of boomers trying to avoid hypoglycemia which was very epidemic in this movement especially in the 1970s will tend to overeat to avoid it.
It is very, very difficult to lose weight especially as you get older. It is not just a simple matter of reducing calories. Some people when they do that just slow down and burn less calories resulting in no weight loss. Science has pretty much validated excess carbohydrates can make one more hungry. This is the "Chinese food" effect where you feel hungry again two hours later. And people with actual slower metabolisms may have never experienced this effect. The other thing that makes this complex is that a practitioner can put you on a diet and in as little as a few days or weeks your body will flip where another kind of diet may be needed. So you need a counselor who is going to be on top of this and modify your program when things change. A good example of this is with low carb diets where after a few weeks the person hits a brick wall and stops losing weight. Most experts on this kind of dieting may suggest actually adding carbs back in at that point as that is when the body has changed. And as I have already mentioned, Bevan being a big guy, is probably not set up to be a vegetarian. Hence his body also consumes more trying to find the nutrients that might be more easily found in a non-vegetarian diet. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
