Holy Hotcakes!
What the blazes is this doing in Newsweek?
So if you think your nutritional concerns can be rightfully addressed with food alone, think again. When the real-life requirements of the eight sacred metabolizers are not met, the body withers and weakens, loses integrity, and invites disease upon itself, calling forth whatever symptoms are necessary to alert us to the soul lesson that is hungering for nourishment and attention. We can no longer look exclusively in the biological realm to solve health problems that are but downstream effects of the affairs and tides of the soul.
#$!&@?/#!!!!
Comments
It is a strange book indeed from what I've seen. It covers all bases as you can see from this excerpt:
Do you know how the French "do it" when it comes to food? When asked this question most people familiar with the culture comment that the French take a few hours for lunch, they drink a generous amount of red wine with their meals, they eats lots of cheese and high-fat foods, their portions tend to be smaller, their midday meal is the largest of the day, they're fanatic about using fresh foods and high-quality ingredients, they don't exercise as much as Americans, they smoke a lot, they're thinner, and they dine and celebrate their meals as opposed to eating and running. Until recently, the French didn't even have a term for "fast food."
which I cribbed from The Farmer's Market Online. In the author's view any relaxation technique prior to eating will do, prayer, TM, take your pick as long as in the author's words "it's inspiring". The book has been pushed before in Newsweek back in June. I believe it's called tasteless marketing of a trade book.
If you want to see really tasteless try Club Gitmo on Limbaugh's site which I absolutely refuse to link.
It's not so much a lack of limits in taste that distresses me about mass media as the lack of substance and the ideology that's offered as substance. The Economist for what it lacks in graphic style at least tries to make it up with some substance and taste. But, then perhaps we're just their market niche.
Posted by: George | July 12, 2005 11:22 PM
All my soul needs for renewal is a rare bacon cheeseburger with well-done fries or, if unavailable, a liverwurst sandwich on pumpernickel toast with thick red onion, a good mustard, Tabasco and a smear of mayo. Maybe a piece of jack cheese.
Posted by: PPOQ | July 15, 2005 01:49 PM