Comments on: Healthy Eating #2

By: Urgelt

Urgelt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

I did a bit of …
I did a bit of instructing from time to time during my career, but I was never a professional teacher.

I’m an amateur in everything I do on YouTube, like most of us here.

By: batman2909

batman2909 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

What an interesting …
What an interesting lecture! I find your voice very relaxing and easy to listen to. Were you ever a teacher?

By: Urgelt

Urgelt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

I’m happy you enjoy …
I’m happy you enjoy them, Liz, and you’re most welcome.

By: lizboofs87

lizboofs87 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

I love Urgelts …
I love Urgelts videos! The way he explains everything is so easy to understand. They also keep me motivated!
Thanks Urgelt!

By: Urgelt

Urgelt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

Dr. Mercola is …
Dr. Mercola is operating well beyond the boundaries of peer-reviewed science these days. That’s not all bad; someone has to get out there and work the fringes, or science will never advance into new territories.

But it means that his methods should come with a warning label: “your mileage may vary.”

By: Urgelt

Urgelt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

Don’t worry about …
Don’t worry about flooding the thread – there’s plenty of room for comments, and conversation is my purpose here.

Nutritional typing has potential. There are problems, though. Lack of peer-reviewed double-blind studies; insufficient understanding of the ways humans differ; and it relies on subjective judgment of the nutritionist or practitioner. Those limitations make it potential quack territory. Buyer beware.

By: omoshiroii

omoshiroii — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

I see. This issue …
I see. This issue is generally considered as emotional barrier in nutritional typing. Dr Mercola uses EFT (emotional freedom technique) which consider the importance of emotional well-being in combating powerful mental obstacles to achieve nutritional balance.

By: omoshiroii

omoshiroii — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

I agree. What’s …
I agree. What’s offered in nutritional typing is the fine-tuning of the diet(type, ratio and combination of foods) over time. Sometimes there willbe a swing between metabolic types n some other disruption. Therefore tuning the diet will help the body towards eating foods synergistically appropriate for the body’s cellular process. Although i would say it wont be perfect until we understand fully how the body works.

By: Urgelt

Urgelt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

Most diets …
Most diets deliberately starve the body of something it needs. It’s the starvation that produces weight loss – and snowballs cravings which eventually defeat the diet.

At least, that’s my take on it.

By: Urgelt

Urgelt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:46:18 +0000

Well, there is more …
Well, there is more to that 2% than typing.

A small segment of the population is capable of monomaniacal denial of cravings – as in, anorexia and bulemia, which often begin when a person (usually young) is overweight, and begins to desire to lose weight at any cost.

Unfortunately, the studies haven’t looked real hard at that 2% to see what is going on there, so I can’t cite which factors have how much influence on the number.