Control Your Appetite, Turbo Charge Your Life – Part 1

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Introduction

The primary focus of this article is on appetite control, but the principles discussed will benefit everyone. Thanks to widespread ignorance as regards basic dietary rules and principles, the following rather lengthy introduction is considered necessary.

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It is one of the high points in life when we come to the realization that we, as humans, are masterpieces of creation. No computer will ever come anywhere near the intricacy of the human mind. No man-made contrivance will ever match the reasoning powers of the human mind. No data storage system will ever perform anywhere near as brilliantly and efficiently as one microscopic human cell and, size for size, no man made “hard drive” will ever hold as much data as one tiny human cell. Nothing that any laboratory will ever produce will possess such instinctive wisdom. No machine will ever be made that will perform what the human body can perform, and certainly no machine will ever be made that is self-regenerating, self-cleansing, and self-healing.

Every moment of every day, everything within us is striving for harmony and perfection. Every cell, organ, nerve and tissue is dedicated to serve, to co-operate, and to obey. Every moment of every day, messages are relayed back and forth from the mind to every part of the body, from organ to organ, from cell to cell, from nerve to nerve, and from the body back to the mind – electrical messages, chemical messages, sensory messages, and hormonal messages. Within every one of us there is a communications network that is so intricate that it makes the World Wide Web look like an infant’s toy. Every moment of every day, everything within us is listening attentively for the next message – waiting – eagerly waiting for an opportunity to contribute towards the functioning and the wellbeing of this miracle that we call “life.”

In recent decades, however, vested interests have introduced an unsuspecting public to a vast array of “foods,” chemicals and thought patterns that have had a devastating effect on the human machinery – so much so that all too many people now drag themselves through life, feeding the miracle on bad foods, bad news (TV) and depressing thoughts – eating only for taste, drinking only for taste and for pleasure, and living only to gratify the senses. And those who should be warning them are all but silent and/or caught in the same web. And all the while the living machinery loses its efficiency, runs on low energy levels, and the messages that are so vital to coordinated bodily function become somewhat muffled and misunderstood.

We have even arrived at a time when powerful advertising campaigns are convincing an all-too-gullible consumer that tea and coffee are healthy, that hydrogenated margarine is good for the heart, that sugar is a wonderful source of energy, that any product that contains an anti-oxidant or a little fiber will promote health and/or prevent cancer – regardless of the other constituents of the product? And all the while disease marches on – fed by the fires of profit-mongering, and vigorously stoked by ignorance.

“Well,” you might ask, “what has all this got to do with the control of appetite?” The answer is, “Plenty.”

Some may not have realized this, but an uncontrollable appetite is a message – it is usually the loud cry of an insulted body, it is the desperate pleading of violated nature, and it is most certainly a warning of worse to come if this desperate loud-cry is not heeded.

While many people would interpret the pleadings of appetite as being little more than a cry for more food, in the majority of cases today an insatiable appetite is a cry for more nutritious food – a cry for more natural food. This is especially the case in this “modern” age where so many foods on our supermarket shelves are hopelessly lacking in vital nutrition. You may read about these dietary pitfalls at the The Natural Health Foundation’s website.

If appetite is a problem, therefore, it is time for us to consider our diets. Have we been deceived by pretty boxes and fancy food packaging? Are we trying to thrive on foods that are made up of little more than refined white sugar, refined white flour, and refined, hydrogenated (plasticised) fats - and sometimes a smattering of frozen vegetables and/or chemically doused meat? Are we oblivious to the fact that our “food” today is a far cry from what Mother Nature intended? Are we fooling ourselves into believing that our lives will not be affected by the free and continual use of foods that have been doused in a wonderful array of flavourants, preservatives, colourants, coagulants, texturizers, tenderizers and various other chemicals such as MSG that fool our taste buds – and that thus ensure that we buy the same product the next time we go shopping? Do we seriously believe that if it tastes good it is good?

Oh yes, such foods may fill the stomach, and they may well satisfy the taste buds, but they are often only a little more nutritious than the boxes in which they are packaged and, as such, they cannot possibly satisfy the body’s needs.

Little wonder, therefore, that our appetites are never satisfied, little wonder that the human family today are so prone to overeating, little wonder that people have a tendency to nibble all day, little wonder that office workers start fantasizing about the mid-morning tea-trolley half an hour after breakfast, little wonder that people dream about food all night, and go on sugar and tea and coffee binges throughout the day. Most of these people are not gluttons – they are simply suffering from malnutrition because they are unwittingly trying to survive on what some would label as “non-food.” They are eating more and more of foods that can only satisfy the needs of the system less and less – hence the uncontrollable appetite.

The endless cry of the appetite, therefore, is seldom a matter of a disordered mind, or the symptom of a depressed state, or the throwback from our forbears. Most often, an insatiable appetite is little more than a prominent symptom of a malnourished body.

If you are having a problem with appetite, if you are a yo-yo dieter, if you need to lose weight – and you hate the idea of fasting or dieting, the accompanying simple, step-by-step programme will prove a great blessing to you.

Follow this programme one step at a time, and do not pressurize yourself. Food is intended for your enjoyment, and the closer you come to using natural foods, the more you will enjoy your meals, the less you will be inclined to overeat, and the happier you will become.

Please be advised that this is not an overnight remedy – for the results of many years of wrong eating cannot be reversed in a day. Like the sunrise, it does promise a new day, however, and that new day will dawn slowly and surely – and there will be no going back . . .

Continue to Part 2 . . .

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