This is a follow-up to my blog on blood sugar regulation, but more specifically to do with insulin control. Diabetes is a rapidly rising trend in all Western societies and even Eastern countries that have traditionally had very low rates of the disease. Unfortunately countries like India, due to Western dietary influences, are also slowly succumbing to insulin disorders.
When it comes to that all important meal at the start of the day, we’re all for convenience, but is there a healthy cereal that we can purchase conveniently at our supermarkets?
I’ve just come home after being part of the autoimmunity episode of the Real Health show on the Home Channel (channel 176 in S Africa) and I thought I would share some of the discussions with you.
When we are out and about and are feeling up for a nibble of something, often we tend to reach out for the popcorn, hoping and possibly believing that it is the healthiest option over the crisps, chocolates, sweeties and whatever else might be out there for sale. Perhaps it’s time to think again before reaching for that hot salty box, because you may be better off eating a proper food snack after all.
“The body is the unconscious mind”
These have perhaps been the most powerful collection of words for me with regards to mind-body understanding over the past several years. They were said by the late Dr Candice Pert in her 2007 book Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d. Pert, as a young post-doc student in the 1970’s was the first person to discover the opiate receptors in the brain - what followed was an extended period of discovery within the world of neurochemistry - basically, every neuropeptide or neurotransmitter that was discovered in the brain, she also discovered within the body. This led to her publishing her landmark book Molecules of Emotion, which should be on the shelf of every person who has any ambition of understanding at least a little about the body-mind connection. Her discoveries also blew the old theories of the mind and body having separate functions out of the water.
