Bizarre Food Stories: The Canned Beans Incident

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Today’s story is about BEANS… but more importantly, it’s about making sure you can DIGEST what you eat.

One day, Nigel had a student that wasn’t feeling well. The first question that comes to our minds when we hear this complaint is “what did you eat?”

So, Nigel asked them what they ate. 

You want to know what they told him?

Beans right out of the can. No cooking, no added seasonings, nothing. Cold canned refried beans. No wonder the student felt ill.

A few days later, the student tried cooking the beans with oil and seasonings, and they reported feeling much better after eating that meal. Here’s what really happened -- they felt much better... after they ate a meal that they could actually digest.

The takeaway is this - the point of eating is to DIGEST your food. The point of eating is NOT just to get food down the gullet at all costs. Cooking doesn’t just “make the food nicer.” The sounds and smells of preparing a meal actually get your digestive system started BEFORE any food touches your tongue. That’s one reason that the student felt better after eating the cooked beans; because the cooking process enhanced their digestion.

If you’re unable to cook for whatever reason, you can still enhance your digestion by chewing your food, eating in a peaceful environment, and thinking happy thoughts while you’re eating. 

For more tips on how to improve your digestion, sign up for one of our Ayurveda classes. Ayurveda has a lot of practical advice about eating and digestion that you can apply right away to improve your health. To sign up, call or text Nigel at (310) 701-6423.

Our class on Mondays at 3 PM PDT is currently full, and our class on Tuesdays at 3:45 PM PDT has 2 more slots open. Ayurveda class sizes are small; classes can be one to 3 people. This is because in our classes, all of our students get personalized attention. You get access to a vast wealth of knowledge from the Ayurvedic texts, you get to communicate with Dr. S herself via her instructors, AND you get priority response if you text us needing help with a health problem. If you want to learn more about YOUR life specifically AND make these sciences practical for YOU, sign up for a class. Class slots open up when people feel confident enough to go on their own. Stay as long or as short as you like! To sign up, OR to get on the waiting list, call or text Nigel at (310) 701-6423, and you can click here for a class schedule.