Re: How to Eat Move and Be Healthy

[Guest guest]

Hi

Has anyone read and starting utilizing Check's

book? Also, are the type of foods he advocates the

same as WAP, similar or different?

jafa

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[Guest guest]

His food recommendations seem to be very similar. His exercise and

stretching programs are very good also. I have had a CHEK trainer

customize a program for me that incorporates many of the exercises and

stretches from the book and I am very happy with the results.

> Hi

>

> Has anyone read and starting utilizing Check's

> book? Also, are the type of foods he advocates the

> same as WAP, similar or different?

>

> jafa

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[Guest guest]

I'm about 2/3 through reading it. He is WAP in that he stresses organic, whole

foods including animal foods. He strongly supports organic, non-processed,

GMO-free, non-irradiated foods, raw milk, pastured meat/eggs, traditional fats,

celtic salt, natural sweeteners, etc. Nothing really new there. One huge hole

is he doesn't mention fermented foods at all, even in his chapter on digestive

health! The second aspect of his " 'no-diet' diet " is metabolic typing which

others have pointed out are too low in fat (10% for carb types, 20% fat for

protein types) and a misinterpretation of WAP.

Interesting reading though. I think he does know what he's talking about as far

as the physical mechanics of the body (movement) and how to best exercise. He

has a lot of exercises he goes over and you'd have to be pretty dedictated to do

them I think.

jafa <jafasum@...> wrote:

Hi

Has anyone read and starting utilizing Check's

book? Also, are the type of foods he advocates the

same as WAP, similar or different?

jafa

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[Guest guest]

The second aspect of his " 'no-diet' diet " is metabolic typing which

others have pointed out are too low in fat (10% for carb types, 20% fat for

protein types) and a misinterpretation of WAP.

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Pretty sure there's reference to Check's bodybuilding metabolic typing

program in Metabolic Man which is out on loan. MTD didn't work for my

protein type or Warrior Diet until I read in Rudolph Wiley's Biobalance to

eat animal protein 3X day using your ideal body weight divided by 15 for

grams as a guide with no dairy protein substitutes. Haven't kept up with

Mercola on that. Fat is low throughout. I don't count other than carbs. Fat

and protein has to be above ratios. For some reason the ratios probably from

on held and were repeated as basic guidelines. One researcher I've

read had a slight variation, iirc. Carb types could count protein. What I

find is important is if you're a carb or protein type, you should keep to

foods in your type as much as possible because these are the foods found to

acidify the too alkaline carb type or alkalinize the too acidic protein

type. Mixed types have more choices. Too much of protein and/or carb type

only choices could throw them off.

what do you see Wolcott misrepresenting about WAP? Rereading, only

assumption I could see is the high protein/fat he says only those of

northern latitudes need vs. high carb only for southern latitudes. If that's

it, it is too general. Example, I see ayurveda's vata as India's

protein/hunter gatherer type.

Wanita

[Guest guest]

> what do you see Wolcott misrepresenting about WAP? Rereading,

only

> assumption I could see is the high protein/fat he says only those of

> northern latitudes need vs. high carb only for southern latitudes.

If that's

> it, it is too general. Example, I see ayurveda's vata as India's

> protein/hunter gatherer type.

>

Wanita,

I don't know Wolcott's work, but vata type is not what I would

describe as protein/hunter gatherer. Vata has poor/irregular

digestion and difficulty digesting proteins. Pitta has very strong

digestion and appetite, typically, high metabolism, but difficulty

with high fat and kapha has slow, steady metabolism and difficulty

digesting carbs. They are the adult-onset diabetes crowd.

B.

[Guest guest]

> Wanita,

> I don't know Wolcott's work, but vata type is not what I would

> describe as protein/hunter gatherer. Vata has poor/irregular

> digestion and difficulty digesting proteins. Pitta has very strong

> digestion and appetite, typically, high metabolism, but difficulty

> with high fat and kapha has slow, steady metabolism and difficulty

> digesting carbs. They are the adult-onset diabetes crowd.

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Test out vata, pitta, kapha. Vata used to have larger difference from pitta.

Found once I reduced and cleaned up the carbs, that I digest protein and fat

better than I ever did carbs. Digestion has always been an issue though. My

reasoning with the correlation is from the diet chart links you sent. Vata

diet allows the high purine dark meats, allows all nuts and mostly avoids

leafy greens making vata the closest of the three to metabolic typing

protein diet.

Wanita

[Guest guest]

> Test out vata, pitta, kapha. Vata used to have larger difference

from pitta.

> Found once I reduced and cleaned up the carbs, that I digest protein

and fat

> better than I ever did carbs. Digestion has always been an issue

though. My

> reasoning with the correlation is from the diet chart links you

sent. Vata

> diet allows the high purine dark meats, allows all nuts and mostly

avoids

> leafy greens making vata the closest of the three to metabolic typing

> protein diet.

>

Wanita,

I understand what you're saying. I was thrown by the description

" hunter " because the vata is classically very thin, small, delicate

frame. Or else they are the disproportionately tall, lanky,

basketball-player type. Anything irregular, with knobby joints,

crooked nose, teeth, etc. Difficulty adding mass to the body.

They are the creative ones, artists, with light, airy minds and/or

quick, unpredictable movements, but not so much stamina.

They can eat the protein, but generally need therapy first to tone

their digestive tracts, which are typically problematic and

unreliable. They should eat small meals fairly frequently to keep

from getting spacey.

The reason they are supposed to eat that stuff is the propensity

toward dryness of the tissues--they need constant oiling and grounding

to provide a conducting substance for their erratic electrical impulses.

If you don't have the physical characteristics of vata, you wouldn't

be vata, but have a vata disturbance--which is endemic to the erratic,

rapid-moving nature of these modern times.

B.