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Mental Doodle https://mentaldoodle.com Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:13:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 415 Normal https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=3222 https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=3222#respond Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:13:47 +0000 http://mentaldoodle.com/?p=3222 There is absolutely no such thing as ‘Normal’ !

 

First look at the ranges of a normal, healthy, adult person:

   Stomach size 8-1 (In food eating contests the winner is almost always slim!)

   Urine calcium excretion 6-1

   Liver size 4-1

   Insulin production 10-1

   Estrogen production 12-1

   Pituitary gland secretion 10-1

   Saliva sodium 4-1

   Saliva magnesium 5-1 

   and so on (Roger J Williams: Biochemical Individuality 1998)

 

Now the Recommended Daily Allowance assumptions:

   * Adult, under 60 years old

   * In good health

   * Has perfect digestion

   * Not overweight

   * Totally stress-free

   * No medical problems of any type

   * Does not take any sort of medicine

   * Eats a good, balanced diet every day

 

Is this you, or anyone you know?

 

OK, so?

When you are in overall ‘Normal’ health, get your stats recorded. Do this once in Summer and once again in Winter. Whatever those stats are, that’s Normal for you.

Should you fall sick they now have your Normal criteria as the goal to bring you back to.

You’re worth the effort!

 

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You only wish reading one Doodle did it!

It’s a subconscious cross-index of select Doodles, to

side-step your filters, that gets you what you want.

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To reinforce this, read at least 2:   If you Read only one: 378 Facts?

 

6 Feed Yourself36 Prime Time56 Headaches275 Hitler in New York 

313 Fact vs Opinion328 Double Placebo329 Seriously385 Stress and Distress

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344 3 Weeks https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=2697 https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=2697#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:09:40 +0000 http://mentaldoodle.com/?p=2697 At 16  I was invited to a corn roast.

I hated corn.

But the girl who invited me was wonderful.

So I ate a little bit of corn each day.

And thought wonderful thoughts about her while doing so.

I started to appreciate the Taste, then the Texture, then …etc.

Soon I could eat an entire ear of corn and actually enjoy it.

 

It takes 3 weeks to go from I-hate-it to I-like-it. (See # 176)

That’s all it takes.

 

Ok, so?

Well there are many foods you ‘should’ eat you probably do not like and think you never will.

Have I mentioned it takes only 3 weeks to change that?

 

Don’t forget the reverse.

There are many foods you should NOT eat that you like.

Choose only one (to start)

Become extremely fussy with it.

Notice its minor flaws in taste, texture, etc…

In 3 weeks you will just not want to eat it.

 

And that’s not a long time compared to how long you have been eating it!

 

These are Related:

 

1 Ferris Wheel11 Feedback13 Changing Change14 Eliminating Triggers

67 Personal Nag96 Habits168 Creating Desire176 “1-2-3”

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138 Brain Food https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=395 https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=395#respond Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:15:03 +0000 http://mentaldoodle.com/?p=395 The brain must be fed first!
It claims priority over all other parts.
All other parts.

 

Consider:
First you chew to mix saliva with your food. Then swallow.
The stomach breaks that food /saliva mixture into separate nutrients.
Then the proper nutrients go to the proper parts of the body.
All this takes time.
While your stomach breaks these down, none is getting to the brain!
So the brain still sends out hunger signals.
While you are eating. And eating. And eating.
Because you are ‘still’ hungry.

 

So take a sugar based appetizer 15 minutes before your meal. That goes to your brain within a couple of minutes. Your brain then sends ‘full’ signals to you.

 

Or eat very slowly. That also gives you time to get the first nutrients to the brain to trigger a full feeling.

 

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These are related:

# 11 Feedback13 Changing Change18 Being Triggered

27 Responses56 Headaches67 Personal Nag91 Dieting129 Diversity

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129 Diversity https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=385 https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=385#respond Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:44:48 +0000 http://mentaldoodle.com/?p=385 We went to a famous restaurant El Bulli.
They combine different tastes: Beetroot ice cream, Sardines in coconut broth, eel & mango, and so on.
The ‘Tasting’ menu is 15 different combinations, each about a mouthful.
By # 9 my wife was full. I gave up at 11.
I actually felt stuffed after 11 mouthfuls of food! Then the realization hit me.
Our body /mind determines when we are full in one of two ways.
Volume of food that literally fills the stomach. (This is how you GAIN weight!)
OR Diversity of food tastes that trigger the mind to feel full.

 

Eat Chinese food and a couple of hours later you’re hungry again.
Diversity triggered you to feel full, not bulk.
Your mind registers diversity.

 

Get into the habit of diversity. Make a conscious effort to do this.
Then you’ll unthinkingly eat across a broad spectrum.
And not lots!
Set up a habit, consciously.
The effort at the beginning is the only effort required. Habit then takes care of you.
Just as it always has.
I mentioned the weight loss benefits. The health benefits are even greater.

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These are related:

# 63 Free Will 67 Personal Nag 91 Dieting96 Habits 97 Variety 128 And-And

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97 Variety https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=149 https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=149#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:25:22 +0000 http://mentaldoodle.com/?p=149 Many of us take vitamins and mineral supplements everyday.
We also shop at favorite repetitive places.
And they, in turn, buy their supplies from their same suppliers.

 

If only these were a perfect complement to our body.
But they aren’t.
And, if only there was a way to test for this.
But there isn’t.

 

So what to do?
Simple.
Variety is the absolute best answer.
Buy your (same) vitamins from 3 or 4 different brands and mix them up in a larger container.
Then when you take that vitamin you’ll be taking a slightly different composition each time. Or maybe not.
Same with food.
Buy from different suppliers and you’ll get product from different areas of the countries. This gives you different ratios of trace elements and minerals.

 

Since I’m doing this my overall well being dramatically increased.
Those people who travel extensively know exactly what I mean.

 

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These are related:

6 Feed Yourself –  23 Become More Creative –   27 Responses

30 Ever-changing Relationships37 Or Its Equivalent –  43 Desire

56 Headaches63 Free Will79 Truth Time91 Dieting96 Habits

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91 Dieting https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=140 https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=140#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:05:36 +0000 http://mentaldoodle.com/?p=140 Diets work or a zillion people would not be on them.
And there are a zillion different ones.
So take advantage!

 

Try the South Beach diet for a week-less-a-day
Then Indulge. Anything you want on that one day off!
Then do a different diet for one week-less-a-day
Then, you guessed it, indulge for one day.
Then yet a different diet (Zone, Suzanne Summers, Atkins, Grapefruit, whatever)

 

Repeat with four different diets for four weeks total.
You’ll have fun, learn about different diets and lose a lot of weight in that month!

 

The difference, variety, once-a-week indulgence and non-boredom is what causes almost everyone to do it for the whole month.

 

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These are related:

1 Ferris Wheel –  3 Cumulative Knowledge16 Follow Up – 29 Who’s in Charge?

30 Ever-changing Relationships 35 One + One = Two!44 After –  45 Problems

55 Oxygen – 56 Headaches67 Personal Nag –  72 Technique –  73 Killing Frogs

88 Will Power89 Initiating –  96 Habits –  97 Variety – 102 Response-ability

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56 Headaches https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=98 https://mentaldoodle.com/?p=98#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:52:28 +0000 http://mentaldoodle.com/?p=98 Here’s a non medical way to quickly & effectively get rid of minor aches and pains.
To the simplicity: drink 2 x 8oz (2 x 235 ml) glasses of water back-to-back.
I don’t mean to continuously keep yourself hydrated (you definitely profit doing that!)
I mean exactly what I say: 2 glasses of water one-after-the-other.
This provides enough Extra water for your system to use to ‘heal’ you.

 

Eat too much? Ten minutes before a meal: 2 glasses of water one-after-the-other.
Drank too much? 2 glasses of water one-after-the-other.
Developing a headache? 2 glasses of water one-after-the-other.
Ladies just before/during that time: 2 glasses of water one-after-the-other TWICE a day.

 

All too often we underestimate something because of its simplicity.
This solution has served me very well for many, many years and I’m always surprised so few people know about it. The feedback I get when people actually do it confirms it.

 

Suffer, take a pill or try 2 glasses of water one-after-the-other and see for yourself.

What have you got to lose!

 

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6 Feed Yourself31 Being at-Cause96 Habits97 Variety102 Response-ability

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