To a”timed” body – synchronizing the 12 Organ Meridian Systems – it makes little difference if edible oils are saturated, monounsaturated, or polyunsaturated.
An optimally timed body – by way of Time-Conscious Eating or otherwise – can transform all 3 saturation levelsback and forth on demand.
According to Barclay Moon Newman, “The New Heavy Nitrogen,” Scientific American, Dec. 1937 …
“He [Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer of Columbia University] showed that animals can convert oils into fats which do not readily melt, that is, into solid fats; and can also, if need be, reverse the process and transform solid fats into oily fats. […] The living body has always been conceived of as constantly active, yet it has been assumed that at least stored materials are seldom disturbed. Now we realize through research with tagged molecules that few, if any, body compounds remain intact for very long. Life’s processes seethe even through the parts of the organism which appear most inactive and durable.”
Hmmm, 1937? Another example of medical amnesia?
Life is NOT dry chemistry. Life seethes, thrums, beats, rolls,hums, and buzzes.
Plants regulate and mobilize their oils in reference to momentum – TIME.
Otherwise, Time-Conscious Eating would be faddist bunk.
According to Steven Day, “How plants prepare for the cold of night,” New Scientist, Apr. 17, 1993 …
“They [Arnon Rikenand his colleagues at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater] found that the levels of two unsaturated fatty acids, linoleic and linolenic acid, rose in the leaves at night and fell during the day. The pattern continued in plants grown under continuous light.”
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May 18, 2011 @ 2:06 am shellinspector
Atom. It is not faddist bunk, that much I am sure. Try f.ex. eat some pasta for an evening meal, or even 2-3 hours after solar midday, you will be tired , sleepy as if out of nowhere! What I like most about Chronobiotic nutrition is the fact that it does agree,( and originate?) with the ancient Ayurvedic principles. Sattavic sweet food in the morning (fruit nuts), Rajastic food in the midday: corn cereals, leguemes and spicy vegetables. In the evening, the time of active Tamas, Ayurveda is careful not to advise to eat strong tasting food as well as foods requiring Sun energy to be digested (cereals and leguemes).
Where Chronobiotic slightly disagree with Ayurveda is on the milk. In Chronobiotic you drink it in midday since cows eat grass and grass is midday food for them. I don’t think it is that simple, Atom. Cows four stomach-based digestion is a complex process, it does take Sun energy to split the grass nutrients, but it does not mean that milk, their end-product is also a midday food. In Ayurveda, cows milk is by far the most superior, Sattavic food in the universe, affecting higher vibrational bodies, increasing mind power and intelligence as well as providing the body a highly valued energy of the Moon, which calms, soothes and brings about peace and beauty. Cows milk and cream are the best food for female beauty building it up from within. Throw away cosmetics and creams and apply raw cream (with Colostrum) to you skin and it will stay naturally young.
Milk is a nighttime food, it digests slowly, mixes poorly with other foods. In fact during the night it stays pretty much in the stomach, feeding our mental bodies more than it does physical. Amount of milk to be drunk is individual and one has to start slowly with half a cup or smaller. A year ago I started giving my 8 year old son a half a cup, slightly warm raw organic milk before going to bed. I can see tremendous difference. He has sort of become more thoughtful, more mature for his age. You can see it in his eyes, they are no longer restless like they used to, the soul and its natural beauty shines through them.
That said, milk and diary, as one of Patrick’s guests said, is the most _adulturated_ food in the food industry. That is sad indeed, so pick it with care.
May 18, 2011 @ 5:01 am atomb
Humans seem to be the only adult species drinking milk.
Milk is quickly coagulated and chymified in the human stomach – 2 hours or so.
Fish and wild game digest even quicker – 1 hour or so.
Beef, butter, eggs, and almost all vegetables take much longer – 3 or 4 hours.
Unchewed meat will digest. Unchewed vegetables often WON’T – a good reason for Fletcherism and other marathon chewing programs.
(In the words of Horace Fletcher, “Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate.”)
This OBSERVATIONAL data (not armchair speculation) was first published in 1834 – 177 years ago – by Dr. William Beaumont, the “Father of Gastric Physiology.”
Hmmmm. Another case of medical amnesia???
We are not only what we eat – we are what we eat ate.
Consider the case of Brazil nut genes inserted into soy and fed to cows.
Many folks who ate the meat and/or drank the milk from these cows came down with Brazil nut allergies, which is why the gene jocks finally took this particular Frankenfood off the market.
When you eat grass-fed beef, you’re eating grass genes – and they’re being horizontally incorporated into your own genetic matrix (and modifying your clock genes and even adding new ones).
Incidentally, the lactic acid in milk leeches calcium and protein out of bones, which is why hip-fracture rates are highest in milk-drinking countries.
I keep my dairy products to a minimum, using cow cream or goat cheese at midday and clarified butter (a time-neutral food) any time of the day or night.
As for Ayurveda, years ago I pored through its 3 major ancient texts – Chraraka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita, and Ashtanga Hridayam – and wasn’t too impressed.
(I choose to remember if these volumes were abridged – which may be the reason I was underimpressed. What editions of these books did you read?)
I’m even less impressed with the “pop” Ayurvedic books flooding the market today – containing items like iridology charts totally unrelated to ancient or modern Ayurveda.
May 18, 2011 @ 2:50 pm shellinspector
For Ayurveda, I accept the authority of one of my gurus, Gennady Torsunov, who is well known in Russian Veda, Ayurveda circles. To be honest, I have not read the scriptures myself, but you are right, this is a good idea to read books by yourself. I will do this someday. Do you think that the books have all the Vedic wisdom in them. I would assume that some portion of the knowledge is passed in oral form by the path of Parampara.
However, just turning to my intuition alone I would still regard milk to be most natural thing to drink. I enjoy both the taste and the feeling it gives me. However, the a picture of a human slaughtering animals is enough to make me give a psychological trauma for a long time. People can fool their reason, but you can’t fool their soul that easy. As an analogy, would you have a good feeling wearing a sweater knowing it was stolen from a poor sick child? But I guess, I am starting to diverge into vegetarism here ;-)
The idea that we are the only species to drink milk as adults does not bother me at all. For a spiritual person, a distinction between people and animals is never a faulty premise. As I have written before, I am a bigger proponent of a descending (deductve) thought as opposed to ascending (inductive) and I would be more inclined to go by Vedic authorities as opposed to authorities of modern science, which like to dissect everything to molecules and assume that associations of simple parts creates complex behaviors. Its like tying to put a computer hardware, and a CD with a compiler program on it in the same trash bin and then set it on fire in expectation for it to start producing some valid computing that make sense ;-)
May 18, 2011 @ 3:47 pm atomb
Dairy products seem to work quite well for those of Swiss and Scandinavian descent, as validated by the research of Weston A. Price, DDS (1870-1948).
Yes, chemistry paradigms ignore Life’s quantum and “elan vital” paradigms. :)
This opposition of “quantity” versus “quality” was addressed in the 1974 novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.