You Are What You Eat

 Eating bad things will make you feel like a bad thing.  An over indulgence in your favorite food if it's not good for you in the long run will probably have some repercussions.   These will come in different guises such as flu like symptoms, headaches, general body aches and pains, and yes you may even suffer from an old fashioned hangover from doing something silly like eating a whole package of Ball Park franks all by yourself.  There is something about an over dose of nitrates and sodium that will send your body into the payback mode.  The next day you will understand the error of your ways.  

The proper diet of a healthy human being is rich in amino acids, vitamins, and minerals historically from the area or region a group of people come from.  Traditionally the people of the Northeast had a diet rich in grains, tubers, leafy green things, fish, wild game, and fresh water.  Over generations of change and the development of farming techniques evolved to encompass the diet that would evolve to sustain the people and their progeny.   This enhances physical development and generates evolution in human beings.  All starting from what we eat and how we eat it.  

Thus is the old adage, "You are what you eat."  If that true, then I'm may be lost in the existence of  an Oscar Myer Weiner.  Thus is the life of the Hot Dog.  If you want to change yourself physically the first place to start is the food you stuff into your face.  That change can change the universe.

A well balanced diet, with a moderate amount of exercise combined with the ability to laugh at ones self and not take life to seriously  potentially has the power to redraw your existence.  Now it's up to you to take that step towards good, happy food.  Let's see what happens.

Peace and Balance,

John

Tryptophan Hangover

 As a rule, I don't drink.  Not that I'm not against having a frothy adult beverage socially, however through the wisdom that comes with age and some past experiences where universal forces have taken over and spun me in directions that aren't altogether happy, I am what we can classically coin as a Coffee Totaler.  

That being said, there is a ramification to the over indulgence in a full course Turkey dinner.  That force started early this morning as I began waking.  It made me reclose my eyes and go back to sleep in hopes I was just having a bad dream.  I woke a little later, it wasn't a dream.  My head was pounding, my eyes were teary, I had that whooshing sound in my ears that made it hard to concentrate, I was in the throws of a full blown Turkey Hang Over.  

I saw in the morning ABC news that claims it isn't the Tryptophan in the Dead Bird that gives us the sleepies, and or other symptoms of self indulgence, it's the eating to much thing that creates the agony, the pain.  I disagree.

The pain in my brain feels very much like a chemical implosion.   It sits with the memory of past badness's I've experienced in the past due to other types of to much.  But no, it is the Food.  So I looked it up and I found out that Tryptophan is used to calm the aggressive behavior of quarrelsome individuals.  It is used in conjunction with certain antipsychotics to calm the behavior of rowdy psych patience.  It makes the individual sleepy and less aggressive.  hmmm. 

Ok, the ABC news people are smart, they research, they understand things, but why and how did they pass this one up.  It didn't take me more that one search to find the information.  Is there a Thanksgiving conspiracy in the works?  Are the majority using this kind of meal as a way to manipulate the masses?  No, it couldn't be.  

Although I really don't believe that, my brain hurts.  So, I've taken an Excedrin Migraine pill and turned the lights down low.  Maybe the meal will pass.  

Peace and Balance,

John