Pollan's 7 rules for eating6/12/2023 ![]() #39 Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. Such cereals are highly processed and full of refined carbohydrates as well as chemical additives. ![]() #36 Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. #19 If it came from a plant, eat it if it was made in a plant, don’t. ![]() #11 Avoid foods you see advertised on television. Now here is a sample of Pollan’s “rules” from with his own comments after some of them. Here’s Michael Pollan’s generalized rule: If you want to feed your children healthy, clean food, use these few, simple rules as your guide. We’re not even dealing with the pesticides applied to crops, here, but the empty calories in processed food. ![]() ![]() Rules such as “Eat the fresh food around the perimeter of a supermarket, rather than the processed food in the center aisles,” remind us that large corporations have removed the essential nutrition from packaged foods, substituting high fructose corn syrup that makes it taste good, but leaving very little or no nutrition.Ī steady diet of these kinds of “fake foods,” many with long chemical names that we don’t understand, is responsible for the increasing rates of obesity, hyperactivity, diabetes, heart disease, and plenty of other unhealthy conditions unknown to our ancestors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “The essays offer a number of fresh perspectives on the Black Death, the series of plagues that ravaged Europe after 1347.” ― History “Focusing on the Black Death which reduced the population in some European cities by 80 percent, Herlihy draws some powerful parallels between the plague and AIDS.His argument is a provocative one which will lead other historians to re-examine not only the period of the Black Death but the foundations of medieval and modern medicine.” ― Lara Marks, History Today The Black Death was to shake Europe out of its immobile lethargy and to initiate processes of renewal.Samuel Cohn's succinct introduction provides an excellent commentary on Herlihy's theses.” ― Andrew Wear, Times Literary Supplement ![]() Briefly and lucidly, Herlihy argued that Europe was.locked into Malthusian stasis, with a population unable to improve its standard of living and possessed of a set of unchanging and stagnating institutions. ![]() “Herlihy proposed that the Black Death led to "the transformation of the West" and shaped crucial aspects of modern thinking and behavior. ![]() Roland barthes myth today6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Everything, then, can be a myth? Yes, I believe this, for the universe is infinitely fertile in suggestions. Myth is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way in which it utters this message: there are formal limits to myth, there are no ‘substantial’ ones. It can be seen that to purport to discriminate among mythical objects according to their substance would be entirely illusory: since myth is a type of speech, everything can be a myth provided it is conveyed by a discourse. ![]() Later, we shall have to assign to this form historical limits, conditions of use, and reintroduce society into it: we must nevertheless first describe it as a form. This allows one to perceive that myth cannot possibly be an object, a concept, or an idea it is a mode of signification, a form. But what must be firmly established at the start is that myth is a system of communication, that it is a message. ![]() Of course, it is not any type: language needs special conditions in order to become myth: we shall see them in a minute. What is a myth, today? I shall give at the outset a first, very simple answer, which is perfectly consistent with etymology: myth is a type of speech ? ![]() Swan Song by Robert McCammon6/11/2023 ![]() In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth's last survivors are drawn into the final battle between good and evil, which will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets?Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station.and Swan, a young girl possessing special powers, who travels alongside Josh to a Midwest town where healing and recovery can begin with her extraordinary gifts. Soon, America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen?from the president of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City?will fight to stay alive. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon's prescient and astonishing vision of a post-apocalyptic United States comes to life in this classic epic of terror and renewal.įacing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the US government responds with a nuclear attack. ![]() Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Robert McCammon’s classic post-apocalyptic novel Swan Song is currently available in print only as a mass-market paperback. ![]() Flowers in the attic prequel books6/11/2023 ![]() The Hammer, With Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman, Gets January Airdate - Watch Lifetime Movie TrailerĪdditionally, Alana Boden ( I Am Elizabeth Smart) will play Garland Foxworth’s new wife, Alicia Hannah Dodd ( Harlots) has been cast as Olivia’s daughter, Corinne T’Shan Williams ( The Color Purple) plays Foxworth Hall’s longtime staff member and Olivia’s observant housekeeper, Nella and Callum Kerr ( Four Weddings and a Funeral) is Christopher, a close relative of the Foxworth family whose life will be eternally intertwined with Corrine’s from the moment they set eyes on each other.įlowers in the Attic: The Origin - a prequel to 2014’s Flowers in the Attic and its sequel, Petals on the Wind - follows Olivia Winfield, a headstrong and determined woman working alongside her father when she finds herself unexpectedly courted by Malcolm Foxworth, one of the nation’s most eligible bachelors. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Kirk Arrives (and La'an's Got a Crush!) in Season 2 Trailer - Watch ![]() Bright side kim holden ending6/11/2023 ![]() I write from the heart and try to keep it real. It’s specific to them and I’m no different. I think everyone’s writing style is different. I write, obviously, but it’s more a hobby that I’m passionate about.įiona: Do you have a specific writing style? A title held by people I look up to and admire. That seems like a title held by people much more accomplished than myself. I don’t know that I consider myself a writer. A goal accomplished – even if no one ever read it.įiona: When did you first consider yourself a writer? ![]() It took four years to write my first book, but it felt so good when it was done. Life took me in a different direction until one day in my mid-thirties I decided I’m not getting any younger I should probably get on that. I always loved writing when I was in school and always dreamed of writing a book. ![]() I love reading, writing, iced coffee, and music.įiona: When and why did you begin writing? A little about your self `ie your education Family life etc ![]() Me before you after you still me6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Me Before You is achingly hard to read at moments, and yet such a joy." - New York Daily News "Funny and moving but never predictable." - USA Today (4 stars) ![]() To be devoured like candy, between tears." - O, The Oprah Magazine an affair to remember." - New York Times Book Review "When I finished this novel, I didn't want to review it: I wanted to reread it. I will stake my reputation on this book." -Anne Lamott, People "A hilarious, heartbreaking, riveting novel. We all lose what we love at some point, but in her poignant, funny way, Moyes reminds us that even if it's not always happy, there is an ever after." -Miami Herald "Like its predecessor, After You is a comic and breezy novel that also tackles bigger, more difficult subjects, in this case grief and moving on. The 'aftermath' is a subject most writers understandably avoid, but Moyes has tackled it and given readers an affecting, even entertaining female adventure tale about a broken heroine who ultimately rouses herself and falls in love again, this time with the possibilities in her own future." -Maureen Corrigan, NPR "Think Elizabeth Bennet after Darcy's eventual death Alice after Gertrude Wilbur after Charlotte. It's not always easy, it's not always perfect, it's sometimes messy and not completely satisfying. peers deftly into class issues, social mores and complicated relationships that raise as many questions as they answer. ![]() "Jojo Moyes has a hit with AFTER YOU." - USA Today ![]() The Opium War by Julia Lovell6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Opium War is both the story of modern China-starting from this first conflict with the West-and an analysis of the country's contemporary self-image. Beginning with the dramas of the war itself, Julia Lovell explores its background, causes and consequences. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism: the start of China's heroic struggle against a Western conspiracy to destroy the country with opium and gunboat diplomacy. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control.' In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a Cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War (1839-42) with China. "'On the outside, seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly. ![]() Books by stasi eldredge6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She also ministers to women at Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada, Calif., where her husband Erik, a CBMW council member, serves as pastor. ![]() Thoennes serves as assistant professor in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. However, according to a review written for The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) by Donna Thoennes, Ph.D., the book presents pictures of God and woman that are out of step with Scripture. In fact, Captivating upholds the biblical necessity of distinguishing between gender, acknowledging the goodness in the truth that “God made them male and female.” It also presents a biblical view of the unique creation that is woman-no hint of blurring the gender lines here. It rightly emphasizes the fact that God is not only transcendent and wholly other, but is accessible and knowable. 1 position atop the list of best-selling books compiled by the Christian Booksellers Association. The book- Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul (Thomas Nelson, 2005), a female counterpart to John Eldredge’s bestseller Wild at Heart-is currently sitting firmly in the No. ![]() However, according to Donna Thoennes, Ph.D., the book presents pictures of God and woman that are out of step with Scripture.Īt first glance, the popular new book co-authored by husband and wife team John and Stasi Eldredge appears to have much to commend it. At first glance, the popular new book co-authored by John and Stasi Eldredge appears to have much to commend it. ![]() Private Battles by Simon Garfield6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Be it books, baseballs cards, or Barbie dolls, what we gather into our lives defines us in some way. The end result is a thoughtful, funny, and enticing meditation on the impulse to possess. In this unique memoir, Simon Garfield twines the story of his philatelic obsession with an honest, engrossing exploration of the rarities and absences that both limit and define us. But as he was pursuing this secret passion, he was also pursuing a romantic one-while his marriage disintegrated. In the span of a couple of years, he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand British pounds. Then, in his mid-forties, this passion reignited-and it began to consume him. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys, philately has increasingly become the province of older men obsessed with the shrewd investment, the once-in-a-lifetime find, the one elusive beauty that will complete a collection and satisfy an unquenchable thirst.Īs a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors-rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. An obsessively readable memoir about the passions-and perils-of collecting, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Just My Type.įrom the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. ![]() |