You are what you eat

I am reading the book You are what you eat, by Dr Gillian McKeith and am parts of it with some close friends as we encourage each other to eat more healthily and maybe lose a little weight.

One chapter, called Get to Know your Body is especially interesting. It looks at how our body tells us about what it needs in our diet. As part of this chapter it looks at the tongue as an important indicator of health - like a window to the organs.

Wow, I never thought of it like that - although I do scrape my tongue each morning as part of my personal Ayurvedic daily routine. Ayurvedic philosophy is that you scrape your tongue when you arise in the morning to rid your body of ama (toxins) that would otherwise be reabsorbed back into the body and also may cause bad breath. You can order a tongue scraper through an ayurvedic supplier online. I paid about $12 for mine some years ago and wouldn't be without it. You could try http://shop.scienceoflife.co.nz/

Dr McKeith analyses the crack down the middle of the tongue, teethmarks around the sides, a sore tongue, swollen tongue or thick white coating, horizontal cracks or small cracks and grooves, thick yellow coating, red tip; what each of these mean and solutions.

And that is just the tongue!

We are reading it all this week and then looking at what it means for our body and how we can become healthier by reading our signs and applying solutions through a healthy diet. Next week we discuss the readings. In our group we are also paying $5 if we don't lose .2kg a week and are writing down everything we eat and drinking lots and lots of water.
Will let you know how well we go.