The bookshelves are currently locked and loaded with volumes of advice on how to handle our emotional eating issues. True it is that we have some epidemic concerns around weight, overeating, under-eating, binge eating and bulimia. It’s a noble undertaking to find the healing ways that would bring relief to these poignant challenges. But I’ve…
Read MoreOne of the great nutritional challenges that so many people face is a misguided search for the one perfect way to eat. The idea seems to be that if we can find the one true diet – then there’s no more searching. The worry is over, the mystery is solved, we’ve found the answer, and…
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I’d love to write a book called “How to Eat.” The challenge is, every book on food, nutrition, and diet essentially has that same title, but it’s simply hidden and invisible. It fascinates me how so many of us have such clear and good and truly useful ideas on what and how to eat. It’s…
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of my first book, Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind Body Approach to Nutrition and Well Being, published back in 1991. It’s still in print, still sells internationally, and the publisher – Random House – believes in its timeless message. About 10 years before I wrote this book, I was frustrated…
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Have you noticed that there’s a huge number of diet books, nutrition systems, and eating experts telling us what to do – and that they’re all saying something dramatically different? What’s even more fascinating, those experts are offering scientific proof of why their approach works best. Who’s right? How can science prove so many conflicting…
Read MoreWhen I first studied meditation in my late teens, my teacher would have us sit and meditate for 2 hours. It was excruciating. Despite this rigorous amount of time, he had one interesting little trick that always caught my attention. At about 5 minutes before the 2-hour period was about to finish, he’d ring a…
Read MoreIt often amazes how many people I meet who say they want a faster metabolism. The promise seems to be that the faster one’s metabolism is, the more you’ll be a lean, mean, calorie-burning machine with the ability to conquer the world with an abundance of energy and a hot body. Over the years, this…
Read MoreSo many people love food, love the pleasure of food, and in an ideal galaxy, would love to have a lot more pleasurable foods coming through the pipeline. This makes perfect sense, as we are literally and physiologically built for pleasure. All organisms on the planet, be they lion, lizard, amoeba, or human are all…
Read MoreOf all the important tools and tricks and deeper understandings I have ever learned about psychology and the human experience, the all important nugget of wisdom that I never saw in any textbook was this: We are profoundly sensitive and fragile. And perhaps way more so than we’d like to imagine, or could ever publicly…
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