Ayurvedic Zone Diet The Ancient Way to Health Rejuvenation & Weight Control,9780914955856

Ayurvedic Zone Diet The Ancient Way to Health Rejuvenation & Weight Control

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780914955856
ISBN10: 0914955853
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-11
Publisher(s): Lotus Press
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Summary

This book combines the ancient widsom of Ayurveda for health and healing with a modern scientific approach to body typing physiology.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Foreword xiii
The Wholistic Principle
1(8)
The Mechanistic View
2(1)
Whole vs. Fragmented---Order vs. Chaos
3(1)
Natural Law and the Nature of Truth
4(1)
Illness and the Wholistic Principle
5(4)
The Process of Illness
9(13)
Stress
9(13)
Know How You Got Sick
12(1)
Know What Healthy Looks Like
13(4)
Put as Much Energy Into Healing as Getting Sick
17(18)
Get What You Need
35
Know What Is Good For Your Body & Provide It
20(2)
Ayurveda and the Wholistic Principle
22(7)
Basic Principles of Ayurveda
22(4)
Ayurveda and Disease
26(3)
Somatotyping: Descriptions of Body Type and Physiology from Three Views
29(20)
Ayurvedic Body Types: Physiology
30(4)
Ectomorph, Mesomorph, & Endomorph: Physiology
34(2)
Somatotyping
36(4)
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System
40(7)
Summary
47(2)
Biological Control Systems and the Zones
49(4)
How the Body Works
49(3)
Summary of Automatic Body Functions
52(1)
The Digestive Principle
53(6)
The Role of Digestion in Good Health
54(1)
Digestion Vs. Metabolism
55(3)
Understanding the Digestive Principle
58(1)
Digestion and Health
59(9)
The Breaking of Bonds: Enzyme Function
59(8)
Summary
67(1)
Body Types and Digestion
68(5)
Four Levels of Digestive Fire
68(1)
Vata Digestion
69(1)
Pitta Digestion
70(1)
Kapha Digestion
70(1)
Stages of Digestion
71(1)
Ama, the Toxic Load
72(1)
Metabolic Zone of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha
73(7)
Just What is The Zone?
75(1)
Benefits of Living in the ``Zone''
76(1)
The Vata Body Type and Protein Metabolism
77(1)
The Pitta Body Type and Fat Metabolism
77(1)
The Kapha Body Type & Carbohydrate Metabolism
78(1)
Summary
79(1)
Hormones and Digestion
80(10)
Pancreatic Hormones
80(7)
Adrenal Hormones
87(2)
Hormones and Body Type Response
89(1)
Weight Control and Your Body Type Zone
90(15)
Weight Loss and Weight Control
91(1)
Weight Control by Body Type
91(3)
Digestive Fire and Weight by Body Type
94(1)
Lifestyle Therapeutics for Obesity
95(7)
Staying in Your Zone
102(1)
Three Patient Profiles: Weight Control/Weight Loss
103(1)
Summary
104(1)
Diagnosis and Body Type Zones
105(3)
Purpose of Diagnosis
105(1)
How to Help Diagnose Your Condition
106(1)
Reclaiming Your Inner Nature
107(1)
Summary
107(1)
Ancient Way Body/Mind Typing
108(26)
Determination of Body Type
108(1)
Body Type Questionnaire I---Acquired Constitutional Imbalance
109(14)
Body Type Questionnaire II---Birth Constitution
123(9)
What Type Am I?
132(1)
Application of Diagnosis
132(2)
Body Type Zone Programs for Health
134(30)
What Will Living in My Body Type Zone Do for Me?
134(1)
What to Do
135(1)
Body Type Zone Programs
136(28)
Summary
164(3)
Bibliography 167(3)
Information About the Author 170(2)
Resource Guide 172(10)
Index 182

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