Foie Gras

               

               

TASTY?

Many food connaisseurs will at some point have tried ‘foie gras’ and am sure that most readers would be aware of the controversy that surrounds the method used to produce this delicacy, but for anyone who is not ‘foie gras’ literally this means ‘fatty liver’ and is produced by the force feeding young ducks or geese.  The feeding is usually consists of cornmeal being delivered to the throat of the animal via a metal tube, and often causes death and injury to the animal by wounds to the oesophagus or a ruptured stomach and liver.

 

Additonally, the overfeeding causes the liver to swell up to up to 10 times their normal size, otherwise known as ‘hepatic lipidosis’ and if they were not slaughtered would cause their eventual death.

But was does all this have to do with the Caveman diet?

I have used the above is to illustrate the effects of eating too much fat on our liver.  Recently I watched a UK programme (‘The Diet Doctors’) regarding ‘foie gras' and programme enabled me to use visualisation as a method of controlling my eating habits.

The programme noted the production of ‘foie gras’ and resulting fatty liver of the ducks or geese.  The fact is this is also the consequence of over consumption of fatty food on the human liver.  The ‘Diet Doctors’ went on to present healthy liver and describing how a healthy liver should function and compared it with ‘foie gras’, a liver that simply crumbled when touched.  Notably the liver disease is similar, or same as the effect on the liver of alcohol (it is not just alcoholics that may suffer from a cirrhotic liver)!

Where simply mirror images have not succeeded in preventing my weight gain, conjuring up the image of a fatty liver has been an effective visualisation tool to prevent myself consuming unhealthy fatty food over the last six months, and equally I have been able to visualise the positive effects of consuming healthy foods and reverting the effects of an unhealthy diet.

So, next time you're reaching for a tub of butter, slice of cake or biscuit - VISUALISE!