Food and Health Room

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French people and many Mediterranean drinkers have less disease and fatness than others and wine is good for health, especially heart and artery, everybody know that

The most hilarious thing I red is that fruits and especially juices are the fastest way to cirrhosis, not wine !

[Anthea]

French people and many Mediterranean drinkers have less disease and fatness than others and wine is good for health, especially heart and artery, everybody know that

The most hilarious thing I red is that fruits and especially juices are the fastest way to cirrhosis, not wine !

I love pure fruit juice - also I eat at least 1 orange a day

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Concerning the danger of eating fruits, there is a famous Kurdish example : Nureddin Zaza. I don't know if all people know him but he was a famous Kurdish intellectual and writer, closed to Hawar/Syrian group.

In his memories 'Ma vie de Kurde'/'My life as a Kurd' he told his childhood and how he was very fond of a kid goat, as a cherish pet. And once, some guests came to houses and the family killed the kid and served it to meal. He was so traumatized that he could never eat meat after that. I have heard other tragic tales from Kurds, loving a kid or a lamb and suddenly learning that the father killed it… A Kurdish childhood is really a tragedy

So he was quite veggie and particularly fond of fruits. And he died of a liver cancer. I don't know if it has a link with his love of fruits, but it is often pointed by some nutritionist : the danger of fruits.

But diets are like religions : there are many, and each of their followers claim to got the truth… I think that each people has different genetic disposition. For example, Inuits ate fat and meat only during thousands of year. And with modern life they began to eat like us and they suffer from diabetes because they are intolerant to sugar, alcohol, etc.. Genetically, they were built as meat-eaters and fat did not harm them.

[Londoner]

French people and many Mediterranean drinkers have less disease and fatness than others and wine is good for health, especially heart and artery, everybody know that

The most hilarious thing I red is that fruits and especially juices are the fastest way to cirrhosis, not wine !

Red wine has an element, which helps to thin the blood, a property prevents strokes. But wine is alcoholic and all alcoholic drinks put a big burden on the liver, that is the least. But if you are used to drink it your body has adopted itself to it. This is on the expense of other functions as alcohol needs a lot of enzymes to get digested.

This is a link about cirrhosis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhosis

[Londoner]

Concerning the danger of eating fruits, there is a famous Kurdish example : Nureddin Zaza. I don't know if all people know him but he was a famous Kurdish intellectual and writer, closed to Hawar/Syrian group.

In his memories 'Ma vie de Kurde'/'My life as a Kurd' he told his childhood and how he was very fond of a kid goat, as a cherish pet. And once, some guests came to houses and the family killed the kid and served it to meal. He was so traumatized that he could never eat meat after that. I have heard other tragic tales from Kurds, loving a kid or a lamb and suddenly learning that the father killed it… A Kurdish childhood is really a tragedy

So he was quite veggie and particularly fond of fruits. And he died of a liver cancer. I don't know if it has a link with his love of fruits, but it is often pointed by some nutritionist : the danger of fruits.

But diets are like religions : there are many, and each of their followers claim to got the truth… I think that each people has different genetic disposition. For example, Inuits ate fat and meat only during thousands of year. And with modern life they began to eat like us and they suffer from diabetes because they are intolerant to sugar, alcohol, etc.. Genetically, they were built as meat-eaters and fat did not harm them.

it couldn't be fruit because fruit supposed to be the easiest to digest. Fruits have their own enzyme.
The following link is from NHS about liver cancer:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cancer-of- ... auses.aspx

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Honestly I don't know what he DRANK, just that he was not a meat eater but was a fruits addict…

There is also a factor for Middle East people : most of them had A hepatitis and it is a risk to develop liver disease even decades later.

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Today I got a new benefit from Dr H Shinya. I was reading his second book, 'The Enzyme Factor 2', when I came across the technique of abdominal breathing. he claims abdominal breathing raises the level of immune system. I immediately started abdominal breathing and immediately I noticed improvement in my sore throat. I have been ill for the last two weeks. I had chest infection. I have recovered but Yesterday I noticed I had a painful sore throat. I was planning to go emergency section of Newham hospita in the morning. It was just like miracle, the sore soothed a lot and this afternoon for the first time I went out walking for a km or so.


From online search, it seems the technique and benefits of abdominal breathing is well known and documented. But his technique is different and his reasoning for the benefits is different. Online techniques states the usefullness comes because more oxygin goes into the blood and chest and belly get massaged. In his technique , you breath in and out from your nose. Because breathing from the mouth causes evaporation and the loss of precious fluid. He advocates to drink at least two litre of water a day to ensure the blood thin enough to reach all parts of your body. He states that abdominal breathing leading to the temperature of the body to rise, in parallel of which the level of immune system rises. He doesn't say by how much but he states that a drop of 1.00f degree leads to the drop of immune system by 35%.

well, whatever. It is proved in my case it is useful and from now one I always use abdominal breathing.

In his technique you breath in slowly and inhale air as much as you can. After that you exhale slower to take a time longer than the time of inhale by twice. He advices to repeat it about 4 times/hour. But I do it always.

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That's the first thing you learn in relaxation or yoga : breathing with your belly and for that, just watch an animal or a young little one sleeping : what's moving up and down ? not chest.

Abdominal breathing get rid your lungs of all the spoilt air and give a fresh and relaxing signal to your brain. Breathing by nose and never by mouth is also a Yoga teaching, even in the strongest efforts, only the nose is breathing : our nose is a filter for impurities and its job is precisely to protect lung of dirty particules in the air.

There are other technics of breathing in yoga, as the Ujjayi but abdominal breathing is the most simple and should be our ordinary breathing. If we check many times by days, how we breathe, at the end we are using to breathe inly in that way. Each time we are absorbed in our task, or tense, the best thing is to take a big bowl of air by our nose and to make 3 slow abdominal breathings, and by expiring, repeating silently a word we chose, like 'relax' 'peace', or whatever you like is a good help. Instantly your body passes from a shrunken state to an extensible one.

Good societies learn us to tight our belly and waist (also to flatten them and seem thinner) : that's a wrong thing. Strangling our waist is preventing blood circulation, and the fat accumulates in that part (what we called 'bouée' in French, that belt fat).

Recent studies state that stomach is our 2nd brain, full of sensitive connections with our organism and emotions. So we need to cherish it more than any other part of ourselves

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Recent studies state that stomach is our 2nd brain, full of sensitive connections with our organism and emotions. So we need to cherish it more than any other part of ourselves

The stomach, intestines and colon are independent from the brain. When the brain and heart stops, they still remain working for a while.

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As a duck still runs while beheaded, I suppose ?

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2 articles about how our guts shape our emotions :

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... ond-brain/

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-18779997

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I will try the ideal recipe of a natural shampoo : an egg (white and yoke) + lemon juice. I have the bad habit to make a daily shampoo and I would like to shift progressively to a no-poo method.

http://www.beautyandtips.com/hairtips/1 ... gredients/

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As a duck still runs while beheaded, I suppose ?

That may be a sort of reflective action. But in the case of all stomach parts, they act as if they have their own brain.

[Anthea]

Every morning I go green

I get naked and smooth

http://nakedjuice.com/our-products/juice/green-machine

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The color is not friendly. Is it sour to drink ?