I'm going to get healthy. That's a commitment. I've already started eating more greens again. I'm going to get super healthy. And here's how I'm going to do it: not all at once. I'm going to add one healthy thing to my life, then another, and another, gradually. After Yom Kippur, when I will fast, I will buy a tub or a jar of some green super food product. Probably Gary Null's "Greens and Grains", freeze dried greens and whole grains in a powder form. I've heard amazing things abou...
0 commentsFeed me! I didn't even realize I was starving! Apart from any political affiliations I may or may not have (and I have none), watching Barack Obama has been nourishing. I've been alive 42 years and I have never before experienced a candidate for President being authentic, being his real self. Authenticity is deeply nourishing. Realness, baby. Michael's Pollan's brilliant book "In Defense of Food" in all about realness. The fundamental distinction he wants us to start SEEING everywh...
Okay, so I posed the question yesterday, does "barbecue" deserve some kind of special dispensation in the whole discussion of beef and pork production and consumption? I'm sure by now it's obvious that my answer is ... yes. We humans obviously have a special relationship with these members of the animal kingdom (cows and pigs) and that relationship involves some kind of karmic connection whereby ... we get to eat them. (And, in return, they get to survive as a species.) This in it...
More people cooking from scratch is one example the New York Times gives this morning of a positive health effect of "bad times". http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07well.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin. Less eating out means less fatty eating. Also -- and this is fascinating -- a recession leads to there being less of a premium on time ... and so ... more time ... to breathe. Ah. I kind of feel it myself. A little bit of space. (Of course, these are benefits to people w...
Been driving around town hunting for the best barbecue in Los Angeles, while at the same time trying to start reversing the momentum of my weight, trying to get healthy, trying to eat more greens again. I'm sure I'm not the only person contemplating how to balance a love for meat with being more green. It ain't easy. One obvious bbq tip: always order the greens. It helps you eat less and it's kind of a mental reminder: I am not only a meat eater, I am plant eater too, and it is always critic...
One of the saddest developments of the past decade -- or two or three -- has been the politcal arena failing to deliver real food for thought -- real food for the spirit, if you will. Instead, our politicians and media have mostly delivered empty calories -- in the same way that processed foods deliver the apprearance of food, without the reality. "Real food" is not accessible to the average consumer of politics and political news, and worse, the average consumer has been fed such ...
