     | | ETTORE MAZZEI ~ CHEF, AUTHOR, AND WHOLE FOOD NUTRITIONIST Food Combining and Balancing Your pH What, When, and How to Eat? Exercise - Do What Feels Good! Experience All Five Senses Fully How Sex Can Emotionally and Physically Benefit Your Health And Much More ! |
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It's Your Right To Be Fit Sexed And Happy ~ Chapter Summary: Chapter 1 ~ It Does Not Cost a Thing to Get Fit "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." ~ Albert Einstein It does not cost a thing to get fit - period. Do not listen to all the sales pitches. If you are spending money to get fit, you are probably using logic to get fit and could be getting frustrated. Actually, this book will save you money if you practice the fundamentals I discuss. For example, what you eat is fundamental to getting fit. A great place for anyone to start to getting fit is by eating higher quality foods. Chapter 2 ~ If It Feels Good Do It, If It Does Not Feel Good, Do Not Do It! Suffering Is Optional There any many different aspects of getting fit and it is up to you to choose which one is most important to you and where you want to start. Everyone has a different view on what's most important to him or her. I say, you decide. Feel your body and follow its direction. If you have intense energy, you might need to exercise vigorously before the body slows down. If you have a mellow energy, you might need to visualize exercise before you can start. Everyone is different; everyone starts at a different place. In this chapter we will discuss a few aspects of exercise, meditation, and sex as beginning points of fitness. Chapter 3 ~ Consider That We Use Only 1/1000 of Our Potential "LIFE'S JOURNEY is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, 'Holy shit, what a ride!'" ~ Mavis Leyrer There are over three trillion cells in the body and millions of bio-chemical processes that happen in the body every minute. Although we have made significant medical progress in the last two decades, we are very far from understanding the body completely. We have all been influenced by products and by people that say they have an answer about our well-being. They may provide guidelines, but they can't give us exact answers. Everyone on this planet has a different DNA and genetic make-up: Six billion people mean six billion different genetic make-ups. No one thing applies to all. I'm not doing the scientific research for you or me, but here are a few things I've observed. Chapter 4 ~ Can Your Thoughts Heal Your Body? "The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." ~ Louise L. Hay It has been scientifically proven that our thoughts bring about chemical changes in the body. Positive thoughts and positive affirmations bring about chemical changes in the body that makes us feel good. Negative thoughts bring about chemical changes in the body that makes us feel bad. The thoughts we think will make us well or sick. The thoughts we think will attract negative or positive people and events into our lives. The thoughts we think will keep us sexed or unsexed. The thoughts we think will keep us rich or poor. The thoughts we think will keep us fit or unfit. Chapter 5 ~ Life Begins Today - Put the Past Behind You "You do not have to go looking for love when it is where you come from." ~ Werner Erhard It's our habit to look at the world through our past and our acquired knowledge. The good news is that our past and our acquired knowledge need not determine who we are today. We can be and do whatever we want regardless of our past and regardless of what we know or do not know. There are many ways to tap into this freedom. One way to do this is through play. Other ways are through sex, breathing, love, visualization, and fitness. It can be done instantaneously in the clarity of the moment. Chapter 6 ~ Is There Positive and Negative in Your Life? "Life begins to end when we are silent about the things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King A lot of life happens through the play of opposite energies. Consider that in order to feel attracted to another person, you'll sense a negative and a positive; a masculine and a feminine; a yin and a yang force in some kind of interplay. In nature, when there are two positives or two negatives, repulsion happens, as with magnets. The charge is neutralized. Were you ever digging a loved one and then weeks, months or years later you were no longer attracted, or maybe even repulsed? Large numbers of couples no longer sleep together. Or, if they do, it is not satisfying for one or both partners. This is because they have lost their polarity charge and the forces are neutralized. Chapter 7 ~ Do Not Wait for Perfection "Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." ~ Nisgadatta Maharaj Many of us, at one time or another, have been stuck in this frame of mind: "When I finish _____ (fill in the blank) then life will be good." Here are some examples: "When I get married, life will be good." "When I retire, life will get good." "When I make more money, life will be better." What is it going to take to enjoy life now, as it is? What is it going to take to enjoy life when you are broke? What is it going to take to enjoy life when you are not in a loving relationship? What is it going to take to enjoy life when you are overweight? Chapter 8 ~ Does Feeling Your Pain Bring On Creativity? "Be Bold, Be Bold, and everywhere, Be Bold!" ~ Herbert Spencer When we meet with pain and crises, as we all do, we still have choices: We can sit on the couch and suppress emotions by eating, or by drinking and drugging, or by fill in the blank, since we all have different vices. Or we can feel our anger, sadness, hurt, fill-in-the-blank emotions and funnel them into a workout program, write a book, paint a picture or clean our homes, do what we have been putting off or what turns us on. I say funnel it into something that will enhance your life or the lives of others. Chapter 9 ~ The Paradox of Whole Foods vs Processed Foods "The right thing to do never requires any clever or surprise scheme; it is always simple and direct." ~ Source Unknown Dr. Price was the dentist who, in the 1930s, studied isolated groups of people living on a traditional diet and compared their health to those living on an American diet that consists primarily of processed foods - sugar, white flour, canned foods, pasteurized milk and devitalized fats and oils. During his extensive travels, Price examined Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders, African tribes, isolated Swiss and Gaelic peoples, Polynesians, Melanesians, New Zealand Maoris, Eskimos, North American Indians, and Peruvians. Among all these isolated populations he noted one recurring theme: when people lived on their native diet of unrefined whole foods they enjoyed excellent health and an almost complete absence of tooth decay. People of the same racial stock who ate a western diet suffered from rampant tooth decay and degenerative disease; the women often had complications in childbirth. Chapter 10 ~ Food Combining and Balancing Your pH "The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment." ~ Justin Langer Whole foods contain nutrients essential for normal metabolic function. Processed foods, microwaved foods, fried foods, and junk foods alter the nutrients in foods and can cause sickness. Remember that the earth is 70% water and the body is 70% water. Therefore, if we use our instincts, it is probably best to go with Mother Nature on this one. The majority of the foods we eat should be 70% water - fruits and vegetables. When eating concentrated foods - proteins and starches, eat 70% vegetables and 30% protein or starch. The water in fruits and vegetables is essential for carrying nutrients into the body and eliminating toxins from the body. Do not combine proteins and starches and eat fruit alone. I advocate food plans that promote overall health and well being and that properly balance body chemistry. One of the most important balances is that of the pH measurement - or, how acidic or alkaline our blood and tissues are. Chapter 11 ~ What, When, and How to Eat? "We put drugs of which we know little, into our bodies of which we know less, to cure disease of which we know nothing at all." ~ Voltaire More important than exactly what you eat is the quality of your foods and the way you combine them in every meal. It is always advisable to eat light and eat foods closest to their natural states. You cannot go wrong by eating fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouts, grains, and legumes in wise combinations. Please be advised that I am not advocating any one type of food lifestyle, but presenting my view and choice. I believe what's making us sick are all the chemicals, hormones, preservative, food additives, pesticides, artificial flavors, colors and sweeteners we consume. Eat your meals between 12 noon and 8 pm. Why? Between 8 pm and 4 am the body will assimilate your food - meaning it will break it down into usable form. Between 4 am and noon the body will eliminate all the stuff it does not need and any toxic waste. Also when you are sleeping your metabolic rate comes to a stand still. When you wake up it starts to kick in and between 12 pm ands 4 pm is when your metabolic rate is at its peak. This is when you should have your biggest meal of the day. Around 4 pm your metabolic rate will start to slow and this is when you should start eating light. Slow down your body before eating. Take several deep breaths and chill. Chew your food well. It is best to chew it to liquid form before swallowing. Chewing your food good will help you metabolize and absorb it better. Said in another way, careful chewing will mix the food with your natural enzymes and start to break it down giving you more nutritional value. When this is the case you can eat even less and get the same nutritional value. Let me say more about eating less. Most of us over eat - period. Under eating is the way to go. It will give you more energy and it will slow down the aging process. Chapter 12 ~ What Symptoms To Expect When You Improve Your Diet "True winners are made when nobody is watching." ~ Source Unknown If I were asked: What is the area of greatest misunderstanding in the field of nutrition? I would immediately be forced to reply, "It is the failure to properly understand the symptoms and changes which follow the beginning of a better nutritional program." Chapter 13 ~ Go By the Colors and Other Matters: Supplements and FAQs "If you don't push yourself to the limit, how do you know where the limit is?" - Source Unknown I cannot state enough that there are trillions of cells in the body and millions of processes that take place in the body. There are nutrients that have not been discovered yet and there is still more to learn about nutrients we already know about. Therefore, it is best, whenever possible, to have meals that are simple and focused: I call them "mono meals." A breakfast "mono meal" would consist of two bananas or one mango. Try not to eat different fruits together. This restriction will ensure good digestion and avoid other issues. To introduce balanced variety into your diet, let's take the Sesame Street approach and go by the colors. At your first meal of each day of the week pick a different color fruit to eat. Eat different colored fruits and vegetables during the week to ensure proper nutrition and to avoid spending 20 years educating yourself about the science of the body. Monday is yellow bananas, Tuesday purple plums, Wednesday green grapes - you get the picture. Do the same when eating vegetables. The varying of colors each day will ensure that you are getting all the nutrients you need without studying biology for 20 years. Chapter 14 ~ Let nature heal you - Introducing The 12 Wonders "Play the game it was meant to be played, leaving no doubt." ~ Larry Pierson
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