As the health-care debate or as I call it “disease-care” continues to rage in America, infecting and offending people in Canada and England through lies and mis-information. I’d like to offer some useful information to help our readers discern what good health care is about.

Health-care does not mean that every imbalance requires an MRI, [...]]]> As the health-care debate or as I call it “disease-care” continues to rage in America, infecting and offending people in Canada and England through lies and mis-information. I’d like to offer some useful information to help our readers discern what good health care is about.

Health-care does not mean that every imbalance requires an MRI, expensive medications and surgery.  Conversly banishing all invasive procedures, medications and all physicians as some in the alternative health care field would have you believe isn’t the solution either. Holistic health-care does not mean that you become a Luddite, a tree hugger or rely solely on psychic powers.

An integrative medicinal approach to health means approaching health issues with the least invasive procedure and gradually progressing to more invasive procedures after careful assessment allowing for time. Integrative medicine uses all possible means available to assess and treat a person.  Assesment requires questioning, observation, intuition, and tests.  Treatment may begin with relaxation exercises through energy medicine, reiki, nutriments, medications and finally operations.

Did you know that Traditional Chinese Medicine works in this manner?  As a matter of fact, using accupuncture in TCM is one of the most invasive procedures a practioner can do .  A true practitioner begins with non-invasive procedures such as diet and exercise then continues on to herbs, massage and finally accupuncture.  Here in the west, we go “straight for the kill”.  We suffer from “getter dun syndrome”, which doesn’t account for the elegance of our biology and physiology.

We suffer from industrial age thinking.  When something falls apart, we break it down to its smallest pieces, fix the pieces or replace them, then put it back together again.  Henry Ford helped develop an efficient way to make cars, he also created the specialist. Now we have specialists for different parts of our bodies and lives.   Our thinking is wrong.  Our bodies are not machines.  They are biological intelligent organisms.  A machine may mimic the body, a computer may mimic the brain, not the other way around.  Our approach to health care shouldn’t mimic a body shop.  Unfortunately our current system of “disease-care” functions in this exact manner.

I recently read an excellent blog post by Dr. Andrew Weil about how our healthcare industrial complex has subverted the elegence of our biology and created high tech solutions with frightening names for common ailments that require simple lifestyle changes.

Integrative medicine allows for the elegance of our body/mind complex.  Your health and lack of health is a whole intelligent system.   Our disease care system would have you think otherwise.

It all started with a retweet about eggs and protein. I received more comments to that tweet on both my Facebook and Twitter accounts than on almost any other topic.  I think that people just love their eggs.

All joking aside every few years there is an entirely new study about eggs.  There isn’t [...]]]>

It all started with a retweet about eggs and protein. I received more comments to that tweet on both my Facebook and Twitter accounts than on almost any other topic.  I think that people just love their eggs.

All joking aside every few years there is an entirely new study about eggs.  There isn’t ever any true conclusion if they are good for you or not.  So I decided to talk about eggs from a nutritional and medical intuitive perspective.

A medical intuitive perspective is a perspective in which takes in the totality or holistic view of an issue.

The problem with the egg is that we have pulled apart its components and then studied the effects of those components on the human body.  For that matter that’s what we do with most things, forgetting that the “whole is greater than the sum of the parts its made of”. In the 60′s there was a cholesterol scare craze, stopping us from eating eggs, this was before we looked at sedentary living and other lifestyle factors.

Here are some facts…

Eggs are healthy and complete food. The variety of nutrients and the high absorption of our body make eggs one of the most complete foods. Eggs compounds are essential for human body functions as well as for health.

Eggs are rich on high biological value proteins easy to digest. Egg protein is very good, scientist even use it as pattern to compare the protein quality of other food.

One egg has a significant quantity of a wide range of vitamins (A, B₂, B₁₂, D, E, etc) and minerals (phosphorus, selenium, iron, iodine y zinc) that contribute to cover a large part of adults’ ADI of nutrients. The action of some vitamins and oligoelements of eggs help to protect our body from degenerative process such as cancer, diabetes, cataract and some cardiovascular conditions.

The energetic content of an egg is about 75 kilocalories. Thus, eggs have a low caloric content and they do not promote obesity. Many dishes prepared with eggs may be cooked without added fat.

An egg has 7.5 gr of lipids, from what 2 gr are saturated fatty acids (SFA), 1.1 gr. are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and 3 gr. are monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA). The ratio PUFA/SFA is 0.55; it is an acceptable quantity recommendable from a nutritional point of view.

We have to highlight the rich content of oleic acid (monounsaturated), very appreciated for its good effect on health.

Eggs are the main source of phospholipids of our diet and they help to cover significantly our need of linoleic acid, an essential acid that our body cannot synthesize.

One egg gives us a large part of the admissible choline intake recommended by the nutritional education office (500 mg./day). Eggs are also the best source of lecithin (phosphatidylcholine), a very interesting nutritional compound because of its importance in several metabolic processes, in the building of cell membranes and in the acethylcholine neurotransmitter.

Recent researches report that eggs are also an available source of carotenoids (luteine, zeaxanthene). These antioxidant compounds can help to prevent macular degeneration and to delay the appearance of cataracts. (MOELLER, S.M.; JACQUES, P.F.; BLUMBERG, J.B. The potential role of dietary xanthophylls in cataract and age-related macular degeneration. J. Am. Coll. Nutr. 2000; 19:522S-527S).

That’s the nutrient value… alone.

So what about the other aspects of the egg?

On an energetic level… eggs are complete.  They are pure potential.  Potential is just that… it can be made into anything.  So if you are believing that the food/egg you eat is bad for you it will be.

The egg and its shape allows for all possibilities to arise.  It is weighted on one end so it can get grounded into manifestation.

If you do not have eggs in your diet, please consider adding some.  Whole is better than not, real rather than substitute.  That goes for all foods.  Good nutrition comes from having all the vitamins, minerals etc.. interacting together in the proportions they come in naturally.  The only time we need to supplement is when we are not getting what is needed out of our foods.