Pushing and pausing

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Coconut water and coconut oil are huge businesses in the health and beauty industry today.

For about 3960 years of the of the past 4000 years of the documented historical use of the fruits of the coconut palm as a food and a pharmaceutical, the news has all been good. It was seen as a sustainable resource from which the harvested materials influenced every aspect of the lives of tropical communities, but most importantly its fruit, the coconut flesh, water, milk and oil. 

The use of coconut oil around the world in tropical regions is prolific: South and Central America, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Micro-, Mele- and Polynesia and most of Asia. The uses are so respected that they were documented by Ayurvedicmedicine in Sanskrit from 1500BC in all areas relating to the mind, body and spirit. Early European explorers, including Captain Cook, wrote affectionately about the beauty of communities across the Pacific using coconut oil as an integral part of their daily lives. During WWII the water of the young green coconut was successfully used as a substitute for a saline drip saving the lives of many allied soldiers. After the war, in England coconut oil was sold as “margarine” and in the USA as “coconut butter”.    

(By Dr Mark Atkinson

Holistic Medical Physician

MBBS BSc (HONS) FRIPHH FCMA

BETD SAC DIP (Clinical Nutrition)

 

It seems that everyone is on the band wagon espousing the seemingly endless list of benefits.

I was advised, personally, to include it into my diet as a regenerative aid in the recovery of a mental health issue. So every morning I have my glass of coconut water and spread my sandwiches with coconut oil; this is not a “Limitless” kind of thing, I am not suddenly in possession of areas of brain capacity that send wonderment in waves across my colleagues and family.

(That is what I want; I did a week of sit-ups and expected a rippling torso to replace my wobbling one).

No, this diet change is a long term plan, I hope to improve my overall health and well-being for the years left to me.

So this morning didn’t begin well; stages one and two had been fine and got me to the kitchen dressed and ready (beat the alarm again, which is always a minor victory).

Lunch preparation complete I poured my ‘miracle’ water and downed it in a single action; immediately every olfactory sensor in my being began alerting me to the fact something was terribly amiss. Gag reflex kicking in to join the party I rushed to the sink expecting the worst, but it all settled down and stayed down to my great relief.

I can add this new information to the list of things which I have learned this last year; I never knew coconut water would turn sour, my wife despairs at times at my inability to comprehend  why things which are refrigerated do not last forever.

Another important lessons of this year has been how far to push myself; never one for half measures I am realising that long term benefits outweigh immediate outcomes. One simple change of lunch contents has reduced my girth considerably over months; I am hoping that pushing myself to write will keep my brain from overheating again and focussed on what is important. Having it in black and white is an indelible mark to record my temperature.

Just having the title of this piece in my head is a high level water mark that things are improving.

 

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