Adopt a regimen of health, practice moderate exercise, and take just enough food and drink to restore our strength, not overburden it.
–Cicero, 44 BC
Good, sensible advice, no? But does anyone know what “a regimen of health” would be for a first-century Roman? Goat sacrifices and mead? Had Rome already adopted the so-called Mediterranean Diet? (I […]

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Check out this article on “eating to support your yoga” in Yoga Journal. If the sections on ayurvedic eating and fasting (they give fasting a thumbs-down) bore you, skip straight to the “conscious eating” section.

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Here’s the first-person story of a girl who lost 50 pounds in five months, just prior to college. It’s a textbook case of The Trouble with Diets, heartbreaking and familiar. Fortunately, she came out the other end with a very healthy attitude and some words to live by:
“I eat because I am hungry or because […]

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I’ve been reading up on my new conviction that diets are the enemy. Turns out the movement, or at least one wing of it, has a name: Intuitive Eating, the idea that your best body will unfold like a flower if you simply eat when hungry and stop when full. This is also the heart […]

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