The Yoga of Eating [antikvár]

IntroductionIf you are like most people, at some point in your life you will decide to improve your diet. Inspired perhaps by a health crisis or a spiritual awakening or a new relationship, you decide to eat in a healthier or more ethical way.Unfortunately, sooner or later you are bound to discover that "improving your diet" is not as straightforward as you imagined. Buy any book on diet or nutrition and you'll find plenty of persuasive advice on what we should and should not eat. Pick up another book and you'll find equally persuasive advice in direct opposition to the first. What to do?One book might tout the wonders of soy; another will warn us of its dangers. One book might advocate a diet consisting primarily of raw foods, rich in enzyme vitality; another advises to limit intake of raw foods, so as not to dampen the digestive fire. One book will champion honey as a super-food; another says honey is just as harmful as any other sugar. Most mainstream books on nutrition advise us limit intake of fat, particularly saturated fat; an increasingly prominent minority contends that actually, traditional animal fats are good for you. Some authorities say that supplements are absolutely essential for good health; others say they just give you "expensive urine." One philosophy might advocate a diet based on your blood type; another, based on your ayurvedic type; another, on your Chinese medicine element. Some ethical systems are based on veg-