The Daylight Diet; Divine Eating for Superior Health and Digestion
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Did you know when you eat is just as important as what you eat? It can determine your total health and wellness. Raw Food Chef and Author Paul Nison has studied the topic of health and digestion for years and will share information no one else is talking about in his newest book, The Daylight Diet. In this book you will learn the ideal times to eat for best digestion. The best times to be awake and go to sleep. How to overcoming late-night eating, lose weight, gain energy and so much more. This way of eating has also been prove to build immunity to fight disease…. More >>
The Daylight Diet; Divine Eating for Superior Health and Digestion
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In raw food leader Paul Nison’s new book, The Daylight Diet, I found some exciting new pieces to the health puzzle: don’t eat anything after sunset! Never eat when it is dark. Eat less food, and only two meals a day. If at all possible, eat breakfast in the third hour of daylight (usually around 8 to 9 AM) and have your last meal six hours later, at the ninth hour of daylight (usually around 2 to 3 PM). Give up that bad habit of snacking. What this does is give your digestive system a long rest between meals. Then after your late lunch/early dinner, you have about 17 or 18 hours of fasting which enables your body to cleanse and heal, doing its housecleaning. You also get a much, much deeper sleep when your body is not trying to digest food while you rest.
Paul explains that there is a direct connection between the optic nerve and digestion: “When sunlight hits the optic nerve, electrical impulses are transmitted, activating many processes of the body, including digestion. Nerve impulses send messages that tell the body to produce certain enzymes, gastric juices, and other processes of digestion.”
“Regardless of the food you eat, if you consistently eat when it is dark outside, your health will never thrive,” insists Paul. He evens states that “it is far worse to overeat even high quality food, than to consume low quality foods in small amounts. In other words, it’s the quantity that does far more damage than the quality.” He explains that he used to eat 7,000 calories a day (yet only weighed 150 pounds, so obviously calories didn’t count–some young men can get away with that!)
In order for this to succeed, you will need to cultivate new habits. You can start by not eating after 6 PM and gradually reduce it till it is earlier. Paul realizes this is difficult for those working graveyard shift, but explains that it is thus called for a reason, and you should try to work days if at all possible. You will also have to eat high nutrition, since you will be consuming less food. Paul gives a formula for figuring out the exact best times for you to eat, based on his years of experience with this diet.
For the early eating and two meals, Paul cites historical health teachers, including Dr. Dio Lewis from 1850 and Luigi Cornaro from the 1500s. He quotes many others on the benefits of eating sparsely with high nutrition. (Actually there have been hundreds of studies since the 1930s that support this claim.) He cites the historical customs of eating this way in Europe until the 1600s and goes into the history of how meals evolved. As you may imagine, the Industrial Revolution was a major setback in our eating routines.
You think it’s hard to eat less and earlier? Wait until you hear this: Paul also wants us to give up TV, computers and video games for the last three hours before we sleep. (OK, food yes–but the Internet? And night TV is when I do my trampoline, yoga and facial exercises!) Paul explains how TV, sugar, caffeine and computers create adrenal fatigue and also interfere with sleep.
In addition, there are chapters with information on the daily detox, monitoring your health, how to deal with social situations, and a plan for how to get started.
I have already gone 7 months without eating after 6 PM, and have noted great health and sleep benefits! But this book is inspiring me to make it 5 PM and later 4. I am always looking for ways to get to the next level of superior health and found this book very inspiring. Great work, Paul!