the golden ratio
When it comes to actually following The Diet Code
program, the practice is much simpler than the theory. But
the Golden Ratio, the formula underlying The Diet Code,
is rooted not only in the history of mathematics, but also
in the origins of the universe. Whether you’re a closet
mathematician or you’re just looking to feel better and lose
a few pounds, understanding the science behind The Diet
Code will help explain why eating The Diet Code
way feels so right and so natural. The science behind this
plan is the same that guides human biology - that’s what
The Diet Code is all about: eating the way we are built
to eat.
A couple of years before Columbus made his first
trans-Atlantic voyage Leonardo da Vinci completed a
five-point rendition of the human body. His now famous
Vitruvian Man drawing (represented on THE DIET CODE cover)
of spread-eagled arms and legs bound by a circle revived a
symbol tracing back 6000 years to Mesopotamia: the pentacle.
The ancient Greek mathematical school of Pythagoras
(often credited with the earliest documented use of the
Golden Ratio) saw such perfection in the pentacle they
called it Hygeia, or health. It's five elements even
comprise the component recipe for bread! In medieval lore
the pentacle stood for the five chivalric virtues of the
Grail knights. Further, the word grail itself derived from
Mesopotamian graal -- the term for the center or
sacred heart of the pentacle outlined by its five triangular
arms. The Greeks named this secret space pentemychos
and regarded it as the mystical gateway to all realms.
An uncontested property of the pentacle is that it
configures the Golden Ratio and its very special
mathematical proportion known as phi.
The natural world is an astonishing display case of
applications of phi, or the Golden Ratio. Phi first
describes curves and spirals and then growth and movement.
It can be found everywhere from a snail shell or ram’s horns
to the arrangement of vertebrate skeletons and tree
branches; it patterns the flight of birds and swim courses
of fish, the form of ocean waves, and the shape and spin of
galaxies. Another famous Italian got it right: the universe
really is written in the language of mathematics. Plenty of
examples of phi are also found throughout the human
body – in the placement of human joints, the development of
the human fetus, and the design of our kidneys, circulatory
system and cerebrum.
The Golden Ratio keeps showing up because it works, and
works well. It’s a formula that guarantees efficient,
economic – and beautiful – design. Great artists and
architects throughout history have imitated it and
reiterated it, and musicians, geometers, and scientists
among others have also used it to guide their work. In doing
the same, Da Vinci was in good company.
In exploring the reaches of the Golden Ratio, Leonardo
essentially applied ancient wisdom, revivifying ideas form
even before the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. What he
observed in the world around him, he presented in his art
and other work. What appeals to us so mightily, whether in
the Mona Lisa smile, the interlaced façade of Notre Dame,
the curves of a Stradivari violin, or
the
seminal Great Pyramid – or even, as you’ll see, a properly
assembled plate of food – is the rightness of the design. We
sense it reflects the correct order of things, an experience
of what the world is, the reality of our own bodies –
whether we’re conscious of those connections or not. All of
us are subconsciously in tune with the inherent design of
the universe, and recognize such beauty when faced with a
reflection of that natural law. From each expression of the
Golden Ratio, we get a sense of recognition: we are in a way
looking at ourselves.
Now this universal math forms the foundation of The Diet
Code, the diet most closely aligned with the human body,
a diet designed the same way your body is – a diet as
efficient and effective, as it is beautiful.
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