Follow up to "how to eat"

Ok, so here's the story behind the saying "have a full breakfast, have an ok lunch, have a small dinner."

Our bodies have a biological clock, as you may know. It's divided up into 12 blocks, with each having one organ/meridian being most active. The reason you want to eat a big breakfast is because from 7-9 am is when your stomach is most active. I guess I could make a comparison and say, eating a big breakfast is like putting wood into a wood shredder on high. Have a look at this chart on About.com. So then it comes to explain the small/early dinner. Your stomach is not most active at that time, your kidneys are. You don't want to fill up your stomach with too much stuff.

Hope this give some more concrete information about that saying.

How should you eat food?

That's an easy answer. Eat whenever you feel like it, right? No. You are so wrong. (if you said eat when you're supposed to, yippee.)

You eat at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That doesn't mean at 9:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 8:00 pm. It means at 7:00 am, 12:00 pm, and at...wait for it... 6:00 pm. Is that dinner time outrageous? Too early? Well, it's not. If you eat at 8:00, it's too late.

Here's the info behind that. There's a Chinese saying: "eat a full breakfast, eat a good lunch, eat a small dinner." It rhymes in Chinese though. What they're saying is, eat whatever at breakfast. Be stuffed. You won't gain weight. Eat an OK lunch, so be almost full. And for dinner, eat a little. Almost like a snack, but enough so that you aren't hungry later the night. The reason you don't want to eat too much at dinner is 'cuz your stomach is not as active. It is still digesting, but not at it's prime time, so if you eat a great big feast for dinner, guess what? When you go to sleep, your stomach is still slowly digesting. This can cause nightmares while you sleep. Also, your stomach may take a break too, at night. You've got some food slowly fermenting in your stomach. EWWWW.

Don't make yourself a fermenting vat. Eat an earlier/smaller dinner, and you could even lose extra weight!

For those of you who just can't let go of that annoying 15 pounds, and you are skipping meals, skip dinner. Don't skip breakfast.

No, this isn't a weight loss blog, but just so you know.

Back to eating food. When you eat, I say, eat. Don't watch tv. Don't read a book. Focus on your food and eat. If you multitask, your eating experience will not be as good, and you probably won't be paying attention to what you eat. Think, eating chips in front of the TV.

Next thing: eat when you're supposed to. Don't snack. Snacking is the devil. You think, "oh, I only ate some crackers for breakfast, so I suppose I can have this candy bar. And I only had chips and gatorade at lunch, so I'll have 2 cheese wedges with crackers when I get home. I think these tortilla chips look good, I'll have some queso. I only had rice for dinner, I'll get some popcorn at the movies."

You see what I mean? You're eating all this junk food, and you are still hungry. So eat at your meals.

Maybe Ye Family will tell you about cancer prevention today.

A checkup at the doctor

Ah, the checkup. At the regular Western doctor, your well being is determined by machines and tests. You could be feeling fine, sleeping well, have a good appetite, and, pardon, pooing every day, but you have high cholesteral, according to your doctor. What the??? Now you gotta take medicine.

If you went to a TCM doctor for a checkup, since you've never been to one before, he'll say:

• do you have an appetite when you're supposed to?
• sleeping well?
• have energy when you need it?
• happy?
• no pain anywhere?
• have normal bodily functions?(bowel movement every day?)

If you said yes to everything, you're healthy! Woopee! You don't need another checkup. You only need to go to the doctor if you don't feel well. How easy was that? You're healthy if you think you are, basically.

If you are the skeptical one, you're probably thinking, "well then how do you know if you have high blood pressure? high cholesteral? at risk for a clot? have cancer? etc..." Most of these other facts are not really important. If you have high blood pressure/cholesteral, you won't die. If you feel fine, you won't have a clot. And now for the last thing...(dramatic halloween music) CANCER.

"Um, madam, we have bad news from your mammogram."
"..."
"You have a malignant tumor in your left breast, that is stage three and blah blah..."
"AAHHH!! *starts sobbing*"
"You have 6 months to live without treatment."
"oh no!"
"But we could help!"
(dun duhduuuun)(that was supposed to be like, "suuupermaaaan")

Yeah. Nowadays, having cancer is like, a death sentence. You're so worried about it, you probably die from that. Or maybe the treatment killed you (oops). I'm not saying its a funny matter. It's serious, just not as bad as it looks. It can be cured, but why go through the trouble when you can just prevent it? Why try to "defeat" the cancer? If you were a king, why would you kill your messenger informing you of an enemy attack?

Prevention tips tommorow! To be continued...

Are doctors to be trusted?

So have you been losing faith in your doctor? You probably should. In these days of "advanced" medicine, it's not advanced. It's new. Untested. Inexperienced. "Innovative." Just like that shredded wheat cereal advertisement. New is probably bad. Old definitely means it is good enough to stay. What I'm saying is, Western medicine doesn't make sense. Those doctors, sometimes, don't know what their doing. All their stuff is recent. They're tossing traditional beliefs for newer ones. They making "discoveries," which have been known forever.

We're advocating Chinese Medicine. No, it's not mumbo jumbo herbal medicine. It's not painful acupuncture. We don't have "nonsensical TCM theories," as Quackwatch.com says. Yeah, it's from quackwatch, but they just don't understand. If these theories were nonsensical, they'd be long forgotten. This is 5000 year old stuff. It may be old, but certainly not outdated. It is simply good enough to still be practiced.

This blog is going to explain how to be healthy, live happy, and NOT spend a fortune on medicines, vitamins, checkups, etc. Stay with us and be enlightened!