On Eating - Day 45, the sixth of six

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...fell off the waggon? Never mind. Start retrying. Now.

On Eating - Day 45, the second of six

On Eating - Day 45, The first of six

front: glass of tea back: lemon

On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 15

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waiter in an arab tea house with tea glasses on salvers Bildquelle: geo.de

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last: the big fraud part 1

today: The big fraud part II

next: the big fraud part III

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Trying the Big Fraud we will respect every aspect our body is used to. We´ll avoid any feelings of dissatisfaction our body may suffer.

So we´ll take into account not only the aspects of hunger and thirst but also feelings in and around our mouth and lips our body is used to.

With other words: this is the version for people who are having a hard time to hold their BMI after having stopped a habit which covered a very old reflex in human nature:

the suc kin g reflex. (we´ll abbreviate this word with s.r. to keep unwelcome visitors away from this place)

Usually most of us spend their days sitting in an office, very often in front of a PC. A situation very suited to serve our need to help our s.r. by a simple means. We´ll offer our lips mouth and our s.r. a constantly effective substitute, a substitute that is also of valuable use in other aspects of our experiment.

We´ll join a habit from the Turkish-Arabian-Russian cultural circle: we´ll nearly steadily enjoy sipping little sips of hot tea. Hot? Yes, hot. We hear you saying: But it´s hot in our country, we´d like to drink iced softdrinks!

A culture as old and familiar with hot outside temperatures like Arabia certainly does know much more about the suitability of hot drinks in a hot country than – e.g. Americans – being immigrants from very cold countries like England.

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So shopping demons – on your marks!

We´ll provide ourselves with the right stuff. To buy a big variety of herbal teas and Roiboos teas shouldn´t be a big problem.

Why herbal teas ? We are aiming at a liquid input of two to three litres (remember the mug? That´s a litre) per day.

A tea containing coffein like black tea is too strong for our purpose.

The second thing we need is a little glass. No. Not any little glass. It has to be an object we dig, we like, to help our subconscious steering us again and again towards this object.

And it should be coloured vividly so it say´s: hello, you there, I´m here, have another sip! No, we are not getting any brokerage money from recommending goods on the internet.

Nevertheless we recommend to choose a Turkish-Arabian tee glass or even another glass for every day of the week.

Colored tea glasses No01-> http://www.metroscope.com.au/product-range/tea-glasses-and-teapots-by-metroscope.html

Colored tea glasses No 02-> http://www.mink-living.de/index.php/de/Orientalische-Teeglaeser-Gold-Bunt-Orientalische-Teeglaeser/l-TEEGLAESER%20BUNT

Colored tea glasses No 03-> http://www.oxfamshop.org.au/products/5560284/9287026

On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 15

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salmon steaks on a barbecue grill. Bildquelle: flickr. presented on http://www.meinlieblingsessen.de/page/8/
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Last: the tribal instinct or: people like me

Today: The Big Fraud part I

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We heard a lot about our feedback control system helping us to keep the energy control circuit exactly in balance. We heard that this system is able to learn.

If the system undergoes times of shortage and times of abundance of energy supply, it widens it´s benchmarks and activates an energy saving program, defending avariciously every bit and piece of energy stock material against loss.

The energy stock material is also known as body fat and the benchmark is a rising set point. We heard that a trained system is set to store continuously a little more than the system really needs over the time period of a day.

And slowly, bit by bit, - and without physical pain or unpleasant feelings of disorder – the energy stock warehouses of our body grow and grow. We heard about the important roles of insulin and of our hypophysis and of mechanisms regulating food intake.

The consequence of all this is: if we want to stop a continuously ongoing energy material storage activity we have to work like fraudsters.

We – which is our will, our brain – has to creep up on the feedback control system andturn some screws gently, gently, avoiding to frighten any component of the system.

How can we do this? There are certainly many ways to try it, we will pursue the hypophysis – insulin track. We´ll concentrate on lulling our pancreas gland to a very low activity level. Why? The Royal fleet of insulin ships in the harbour and only a few insulin ships patroulling says: no extreme low glucose level - no hunger attack.

Tomorrow: The big fraud Part II

On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 14

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Russian weightlifter lifting 100 kg. Bildquelle de.academic.ru
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last: insulin, diabetes and nerves

Today: adapting to our surrouning: the tribal instinct: to look like the others is to be like the others

next: the big fraud part 1

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The others: our mirror. Or: the tribal instinct. Or: people like me. A fact we shouldn´t neglect is our wish to be like the others, not to stand out from the crowd.

If individuals of our gender and age have a certain exterior, we unconsciously start to try to look like the others of our kind.

A fact is that far above half of the people around us is carrying an above average BMI which comes along with a quite impressive body volume. We start to adjust our own exterior to what we are observing.

To be like the others is mimicry, is solidarity, fellowship, is being out of the line of fire of defamatory statements concerning the fact that we don´t match in terms of our exterior. Very often it is emphazised that thin people are bashing thick people.

Which may be true in a surrounding of thin people. But sometimes we are living in a world of people who look like bears, mountains and mammoth trees. So we start to adjust.

The wish to be like people around us is a very very strong motive for the choice of our exterior and mustn´t be underestimated.

Even if we think we´d like to have a healthy BMI, the wish to be like people around us outshines this theoretical tenet by far. So, if we think about our BMI, we really have to stop, sit down and listen deep inside which exterior we really wish to represent.

If the very deep wish to look as big and impressive as possible is our driving momentum we haven´t an ice cube´s chance in hell to achieve a BMI our regulatory circuit system would welcome.

Tomorrow: the big fraud.

On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 13

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shelves of different kinds of soft drinks containing an extreme high amount of glucose: Fanta, Coca Cola, Sprite, Mezzo, active drinks c ignazwrobel
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Last: insulin and blood vessels

Today: blood vessels, nerves and diabetes mellitus II

Next: "people like me"

This is not an exposé for a horror drama this is very unfortunately the reality of diabetes mellitus type II.

Blood vessels suffering from any damage can´t do their job in a proper way.

There are very fine vessel which may break and start bleeding into the surrounding tissue. If this tissue is a very delicate material like the retina, our own blood destroys our own retina.

Ninety percent of diabetes II patients suffer from retina damages caused by bursted capillary vessels bleeding onto the retina.

If vessels in our brain will burst, we will suffer from series of little brain strokes, some of them so inconspicuous that we can`t distinguish them from a normal headache.

Brain tissue will be destroyed and maybe we are wondering why we can´t find e.g. words or are using the wrong words. If blood vessels in our extremities can´t transport enough blood because they are congested, very often the tissue of our legs will perish, which leads often to the loss of a limb.

Seventy percent of amputations nowadays are due to diabetes mellitus – tendency rising. The congested vessels also cause damage in our kidneys, the kidneys stop working and the consequence is spending four times a week four hours in a hospital getting our blood washed by a machine.

As the damaged blood vessels can´t nourish the fine nerves in our body properly, we suffer from a diversity of losses.

We will loose our ability to hear properly because the acoustic nerv will be affected, we will loose partly our tactile sense because the fine nerves in our fingers will suffer damage – in our feet and legs also.

Unfortunately our heart will be in danger for a heart attack from congested blood vessels.

These are a few examples of the long term issues we have to expect from diabetes mellitus II beside the fact that this disease puts us in a situation of constant life danger. One single day without external insulin supply will cause death.

People around us will think we are heavily drunk if they see us in a status reflecting a rising insulin coma, our movements slow down to slow motion and our speech will be slurring.

For anybody who doesn´t know these symptoms this will be a clear proof we are drunk. – and a few hours later dead, because nobody gave us a portion of glucose into our mouth.

Well, the real face of diabetes is not a Halle Berry diabetes, keeping the person in a wonderful und seemingly completely inaffected status. Slowly dying from real diabetes II is a hell we wouldn´t wish our most vicious enemy to die from.

So – is there a possibility to minimize the danger to collect a diabetes?

Next: "people like me"

On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 12

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shelves with bags of different kinds of sweets and bonbons c ignazwrobel

last: the combination of fat and sugar

today: insulin and blood vessels

A rising BMI is not much more than a visible sign of a constant stress of the regulatory circuit system in terms of an oversupply of fuel, known as food.

The pancreas gland – like the whole body – is set to alternating phases of work and recreation. Each and every Code red! Alarm is a remarkable stress for the pancreas.

As this gland is a creature of polite character, it tries to cope with the high expectations high energy food is constantly applying. The pancreas starts to work hard, harder, hardest. – The next step is forseeable.

The pancreas will work until a complete nervous breakdown, called diabetes mellitus type II.

The phase shortly before the complete crash is a phase showing the exhaustion of all members of the system.

Insulin production rises to a higher level to be able to shovel all this glucose from our blood to our cells, the cells start to feel tired of constantly open their doors for more fuel to stock inside and they start shaking their heads saying no, sorry, not today, if a insulin ship is ringing the doorbell.

Glucose starts to hang around in the blood vessels: diabetes mellitus II.

Well, Glucose is rushing through our blood vessels. So what? Glucose is not willing to run all the time.

The glucose will find itself a set of chairs to sit down. The chairs are called: the walls of the blood vessels. We can imagine the next step.

If glucose clings to the walls of the vessels these walls become thicker and loose their flexibility. The blood vessels suffer. Suffering blood vessels have problems above all to do their job for two mostly important organs:

our brain, our heart.

Tomorrow: blood vessels, nerves and diabetes mellitus II

On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 11

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shelf with sugar-fat breakfast cereals like Trio, Lion, Choco, White flakes - chips pops and flakes c ignazwrobel
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last: the instinct to keep on looking for food

today: the combination of fat and sugar

The message is as short as disappointing. The nice advertising headlines inspiring confidence in the power of energy bars made of fat and sugar will empower you immediately – is an invention of blossoming marketing phantasies.

White or brown sugar is a food creation not older than two hundred years. Cane sugar, beet sugar, all these concentrated sugars weren´t in use as a white crystalline substance before.

As our body is working today like it did ten thousand years earlier, it didn´t accommodate to an input of a concentrated fat-sugar substance.

The pacreas gland in our body literally gives a startle response of releasing the whole royal fleet of insulin ships when feeling this substance coming into the system. Code red says: Battle stations! The complete available fleet of insulin ships rushes into our blood to store all this glucose and fat immediately into the energy warehouses of our body: the fat cells.

There is no exception to the rule. Even if we urgently need energy, the immediate release of insulin grasps this energy supply if it comes in a concentrated combination of fat and sugar and stores all of it to our fat cells.

And herewith we slowly slowly shift to a topic that comes with overweight: the danger to collect a diabetes.

Next: overweight and the progressing exhaustion of our pancreas gland

On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 10

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different kinds of cabbage and comestible roots c ignazwrobel

yesterday: the sparrows

Today: conformity and the instinct to continuously look for food.

Next: insulin, fat and sugar.

Some people never seem to have to think about their BMI. They are never too thin, they are never too thick – and they never have to monitor their food intake. This is a vast injustice? No. This is a result of lack of extremes.

These people never taught their bodies by bringing down food supply that they – from the point of view of the body – seem to live in an insecure surrounding where food supply will terminate from one moment to the next.

Their body is not set to store each and every calorie of the daily intake they can´t burn at the moment. Conformity, steadiness, no changes in amount ouf food supply is a joker helping to maintain a healthy BMI.

Cooked food.

Cooked food is an invention some scientists say it´s responsible for the development of high culture. Why? Cooked food contains much more energy than crudités. In Greek mythology the act of bringing fire to men was a very big deal. Very big. It was regarded a crime and the guy who did this had to face a very hard sentence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus

Fire was the key for the development of high culture. Why? People were able to stop running all over the place the whole day and do nothing else but search for bits and bites of low energy crudités. Fire helped them to increase energy amount of their food.

Ten minutes of eating secured energy supply for half a day. So they had time to invent things.

(Caricature: Group of Neanderthals, 10.000 B.C. One of them is carving the first wheel ever. His friends: Do you want to come hunting or do you want to keep sitting around all day inventing?)

To get enough energy to keep the regulatory circle system running properly people had to go searching food about up to ten hours a day.

Remember for example the inuit. - Europen friend to an Inuit friend on the phone:

…nice to hear from you! long time no see. ..and what did you do between January and March?

Answer inuit friend: I hunted two seals. -

An example how time consuming it is to chase food.

The trap:

Walking around looking for food is a function of the oldest part of our brain.

It´s written in our BIOS.

With other words: people who suffer from a binge-purge syndrome are continuously chased by men´s disposition of constantly looking for food. This starts to run out of control and we can´t but run around and look for food all day.