Chapter 43; The Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet

 

The second Law of Life is one of three intertwining laws and concerns Life in the environment, and as such is basic and all-encompassing. We can use this fact to say that a solution will be found for any problem that we set, and that that will be a general solution. In particular, the second law defines a method, and gives a system for considering that solution, and as an example, let us look at a subject that has caused much controversy, and that is the ‘Diet’.

 

Hundreds of diets have been formulated and it appears that none of them work over the long-term, so here is the system that allows you to consider your favourite diet and measure the effects using a forward indicator. I believe that none of them work because they do not consider the three major factors (state of mind, nutrition and exercise) that are contained in the second Law of Life. These are major factors and, in the spirit of the Mathematics of the Mind, there will be other less important factors (such as stress etc.) that may be involved, however this level of complication should be sufficient to see how it works.

 

This is a very important point and I will re-phrase it. The Dinky Di Lifestyle Indicator Diet is mathematically derived and is ‘correct’ (given the statements above), and using my usual methods, the total is 100. Work several of the common diets that you may be contemplating using, through the figures and select the highest ranking. Of course, if you want to follow mine (100 points) feel free to do so.

 

Dinky di: Australian bush vernacular – to stress truth; true blue; for Real; speaking the truth (Urban dictionary)

 

I must mention some very important observations. Firstly, the Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet is an ANTI AGEING diet that you should use if you want to live healthily for a long time, also it is an anti cancer and anti heart problems and anti the other ‘modern diseases’. It is designed to change your lifestyle into that of a hunter/gatherer as far as practical without giving up modern necessities. Secondly, by giving a numerical outcome, it allows you to PLAN a healthier lifestyle by imagining what you want to eat and it will tell you how healthy that lifestyle is.

 

Thirdly, it gives a means to COMMUNICATE your success by painting the number on your car, front door etc. or just telling your workmates, friends etc. Fourthly, it enables you to INVOLVE the whole family in it through planning meals etc. Fifthly, IT WILL WORK because you set the conditions that you want to live with and you know that it will work because the research is in this book. Sixthly, as above, the world is changing so rapidly that the parents’ food traditions have been overturned and this diet offers a means of UNIFYING and stabilizing diets worldwide.

 

Finally, anyone of any age can use this diet, by knowing how children are fed and exercised, to the aged in nursing homes. Whilst this diet can get you ‘back into shape’ it really is a LIFESTYLE PLANNER that can be used to measure how ‘well’ the family is living. It records, in a negative sense, the number of take-away meals, snacks, coffees, drinks etc. that are consumed and can be compared to a theoretical 100 points, or some chosen figure for comparison across the community. At the same time, by bringing attention, in a numerical sense, to snacks and meals, it allows families to make healthier choices and to structure meals more healthily.

 

Knowing that this diet will work sounds like we are invoking something extraordinary like the force of the placebo, and we are invoking it, but at the same time not invoking it. The Placebo is ‘believing’ that something will work, and that message travels to all the cells, but in this case the Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet IS the ‘real’ thing. It is based on the research listed in this book and you are free to read the books that are the source of the quotations, just as I did. The more that you read and involve yourself the better, because you are ‘learning’ and thinking and the aim is to ‘better’ yourself through life, and this outcome of ‘betterment’ needs a healthy lifestyle and this is the way to get it.

 

The importance of this Lifestyle Planner is that it gives a basis of comparison with other people, whereas, at the moment most people think that they eat healthily, they simply do not know. Also, if it can decrease the number of the overweight, obese, heart/stroke patients and so on, the percentage decrease is reflected immediately in monetary cost of the medical/hospital system that is becoming unaffordable.

 

The government is trying to introduce a co-payment to fund the health system, and yet here is a costless system that is administered by the patients themselves that will decrease usage of hospitals, allow the elderly to function by themselves for longer and (possibly) reduce the modern diseases in children. The Dinky Di Lifestyle Planner Diet may be the answer, and an answer at a very low cost and a cost borne by the consumer and result in a saving to the community. The impetus is built-in because no one wants to be sick if they can knowingly avoid it, and here is the knowledge. Isn’t it time for the government to be proactive for very little cost instead of taxing the system with a co-payment?

 

From the previous chapter, the second Law of Life can be stated as:

(a) Nutrition. I consume over thirty varieties of nuts, seeds and fruit in the morning and over thirty varieties of vegetables, herbs and spices with fish, cheese etc. for dinner.

 

(b) Exercise. Each day I work FAST for about two hours, or dance FAST for the same time as well as walk for 45 minutes every second day. One hundred push ups (2×50) and four minutes standing on one leg with eyes CLOSED each day except for the mornings after I dance with my hyper-active dance partner.

 

© State of Mind. A positive state of mind and appropriate positive lifestyle is necessary with low levels of stress.

 

 

So the answer to a ‘health package’ is that it is part of a ‘whole’ and it behoves one to look to nutrition, exercise, mental attitude and stress levels in modern life, and trust to your body to do its job. Update the saying ‘let food be your medicine …’ to ‘let the second Law of Life be your medicine’.

 

This Lifestyle Planner is a way of returning our personal environment back to the Palaeolithic lifestyle, as far as we can, and to do it simply without causing the privations that occasionally came with the times and variability of food supplies etc. in the Palaeolithic.

 

The Dinky Di Lifestyle Indicator Diet.

 

Breakfast: add 2 points for each type of seed, nut or fruit eaten (add 3 Brazil nuts for selenium)          Add 1 point for each cup of tea, no milk or sugar or large glass of water. No points for wheat, corn, milk or rice.

maximum 20 points

 

Dinner: add 2 points for each vegetable eaten, plus 2 points for one or more of meat/fish/cheese (regardless of the size of the portion) and 1 point for each herb or spice added (as antioxidants) Add 1 point for each cup of tea, no milk or sugar or large glass of water. No points for potato, wheat (bread, spaghetti, cake etc.), corn, rice or sweet potato

 

maximum 20 points

 

Supplements: 2 points for multi B vitamin (including B12 and Folic acid), 2 points for multi vitamins and minerals (including Iodine), 2 points for vitamin D, 2 points for Fish oil (or other seafood oil) and 1 point for others such as vitamin C, E, etc

maximum 10 points

 

Exercise: Each day I work FAST for about two hours, or dance FAST for the same time 15 points, as well as walk for 45 minutes every second day 2 points per quarter hour

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One hundred push ups (2×50) 5 points, and standing on one leg with eyes CLOSED each day (4 minutes, 1 minute per leg) 10 points.

 

maximum 30 points

 

Mental health: from depressed to completely happy 0 to 5 points, and stress level 0 for high stress, 5 for very low stress, learning a musical instrument 5 points for ‘fine’ motor control, and mental learning, such as researching this book, 5 points. Notice that reading newspapers, listening to audiobooks or playing computer games is 0 points.

 

maximum 20 points

(a) Notice that it will come as no surprise that I get 100 points! Well, most days! Notice that there is no age relationship because I believe that ‘if you do something every day, you can do it forever’.

(b)The ‘balance’ exercises might be surprising, but falls are a source of broken bones which, as we saw previously can lead to death in a large proportion of cases, especially for hip breakages. It may take years of practice before you can do this balance exercise without having to put the other foot down (occasionally) to steady yourself.

© Speed of movement must be fast because slowing down is synonymous with ageing, as is lack of balance ability. ‘A third of the elderly fall, and because they fear falling, they stay home, don’t use their limbs, and become more physically frail’ (The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, p 7)

(d) A useful tip to make life easier is to put the supplements into eight containers because you may not need some types every day, and the point count is immediately obvious. It has been said that you don’t need supplements, but the food has changed so much that I find it better to be careful, also the fact of taking supplements acts as a placebo.

(e) I use a mixture of green and black tea and leave the old tea-leaves in the pot (for half a dozen pots) for any slightly soluble chemicals to leach out. It is generally considered that green tea should ‘steep’ for at least 10 minutes, and this method accentuates this.

(f) The portion sizes of vegetables are not relevant, but should be half a serving of more, variety is sought and many small quantities of the more unusual nuts and seeds would be important. Some food sources have been quoted earlier as being the only source of certain food chemicals.

(g) Users of ‘addictive’ substances, such as smoking cigarettes are helped by the supplements and antioxidants (hopefully) reducing damage, and if they do give up the habit, it has been reported earlier that within five years of ceasing, the probability of problems occurring has returned to normal.

(h) The supplements are necessary because we no longer (inadvertently) put ash into our food, as we did using an open fireplace and skins for saucepans, and also, extra vitamin D and selenium were supplied by eating mushrooms, that also should be regularly eaten.

(i) I eat only two meals a day because I use the blender to make a coarse flour of the nuts and seeds that takes a long time to digest and I have no trouble resisting snacks. Modern milling methods grind flour very finely so that bread etc. rises nicely, but finely ground carbohydrate is also readily absorbed giving ‘blood sugar highs’.

(j) Adequate exercise is extremely important. A 2001 study published in The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine found simply, “Decreased physical activity with ageing appears to be the key factor involved in producing sarcopenia.” (Meatonomics, David Robinson Simon, p 25)

(k) Large portion sizes of animal products are not healthy, ‘according to the National Academy, “available evidence does not support recommending a separate protein requirement for vegetarians.” (p27)

(l) Microwaves do not affect food (see earlier), and vegetables should be cooked in a microwave oven with little water or roasted. Cooking in water is acceptable only if ALL the water is eaten as nutrients move into the water.

(m) Again emphasis is placed on vegetables because ‘a flotilla of scientific papers shows that fish are routinely high in mercury, PCBs, and cholesterol, making them a distinctly unhealthy alternative to plant foods’. (p 140)

(n) ‘Almost every major illness that people acquire has been linked to chronic stress. (Segerstrom and Miller 2004; Kopp and Rethelyi 2004; McEwen and Lasky 2002; McEwen and Seeman 1999) (The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton, p 121)

(o) ‘The study also compared seventy-one-year-old subjects who used the auditory memory program with those of the same age who spent the same amount of time reading newspapers, listening to audiobooks, or playing computer games.’ (The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, p 89)

(p) Loss of ‘fine’ motor control with ageing results in ‘many of us give up on tasks such as drawing, knitting, playing musical instruments, or woodworking because we can’t control the fine movements in our hands. (p 90) Regular practice preserves the ‘hand maps’ in the brain.

 

The above is not meant to be exact or exhaustive, but it should enable you to quickly run through what you would eat in any particular diet. However, any diet that does not include exercise, nutrition, supplements, mental stimulation and stress reduction is incomplete and won’t work in the long-run. Only a life-style change will be long-lasting and as you learn more, you will reduce snacks through mental thoughts/knowledge and read other chapters to understand what you are putting into your mouth.

 

Notice that there are no limits to the amount that you can eat and it is up to you to replace the addictive elements of salt, carbohydrates and fats with non-starchy vegetables and coarse ground nuts and seeds. Fruit is supplied by the tree or bush for you to eat and thus to carry away the seeds and so the flesh/juice is high in carbohydrates to make you want to eat it (when it is ripe). In other words, fruit may not be as good for your health as vegetables because the plant wants you to eat the fruit, but not the stores of food that the plant is keeping for itself.

 

The above is an important PART of anti ageing and the relevant chapters should be read. Likewise, anti aging is only a PART of our living and the more that you learn, the more creative that you become and living longer gives you more opportunity to be even more creative. Out of the mass of data, the closest experiment to the above, quoted earlier, is about the people (with high blood pressure) eating fifty varieties of uncooked food and quickly had their blood pressure return to normal. There is plenty of information available, but you have to be motivated and this ‘diet’ might provide that stimulus.