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Feeding the Body Nourishing the Soul: Essentials of Eating for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being
Feeding the Body Nourishing the Soul Essentials of Eating for Physical Emotional and Spiritual WellBeing Author:Deborah Kesten With the hectic pace of everyday life -- ripping open a packaged breakfast bar as we dash out the door, coffee in hand -- most of us have lost our spiritual connection to food, says nutritionist Deborah Keston. Food has been reduce to fuel. But the human body is not a machine, and many of the food-related issues that plague us, from overeating a... more »nd fear of fat to anorexia and other eating disorders, can be traced to our lack of awareness of the relationship between body and soul.
This book will lead us back to a deeper and healthier relationship to eating by drawing on ancient wisdom from the world's religions and cultures. From Jewish dietary laws to the communion of Christianity to the food-based spiritual practices of Islam, Hinduism, and the Japanese tea ceremony, Kestin shows how to create a more satisfying, spiritually oriented approach to food. Book also includes cutting-edge scientific research on the life-giving properties of food, and fascinating insights from more than 45 scientists and spiritual teachers, to focus our attention on how we prepare our food and our state of mind when we eat.« less