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The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics
A modern girl’s guide to the secrets of eating for health, beauty, and peace of mind. "Part Joan Rivers, part Mahatma Gandhi, Jessica Porter makes macrobiotics meaningful, hilarious, and totally life-changing." Simon Doonan, creative director, Barneys New York and author of Wacky Chicks Heralded by New York magazine as one of the city’s most popular diets, macrobiotics has become the latest trend in dieting, thanks to high-profile supporters like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. Speaking to the generation of young women looking to extend their healthy lifestyles beyond yoga and Pilates, macrobiotic chef and instructor Jessica Porter offers fresh, contemporary, and accessible insight into one...
Feminism's New Age
Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Crystals, Reiki, Tarot, Goddess worship—why do these New Age tokens and practices capture the imagination of so many women? How has New Age culture become even more appealing than feminism? And are the two mutually exclusive? By examining New Age practices from macrobiotics to goddess worship to Native rituals, Feminism's New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism seeks to answer these questions by examining white women's participation in this hugely popular spiritual movement. While most feminist approaches to the New Age phenomenon have simply dismissed its adherents for their politicall...
New Age Capitalism
The pursuit of health and wellness has become a fundamental and familiar part of everyday life in America. We are surrounded by an enticing world of products, practices, and promotions assuring health and happiness—cereal boxes claim that their contents can reduce the risk of heart disease, bars of aromatherapy soap seek to wash away our stresses, newspapers celebrate the wonders of the latest superfoods and herbal remedies. No longer confined to the domain of Western medicine, suggestions for healthy living often turn to alternatives originating in distant times and places, in cultures very different from our own. Diets from ancient or remote groups are presented as cures for everything f...
Mostly Macro
More than thirty years ago George Ohsawa introduced the principles of macrobiotics, a diet based on whole grains, vegetables, and fresh foods. Now, Lisa Turner summarizes these principles and provides practical information on how to use natural ingredients to plan healthy meals. One hundred twenty palate-pleasing dishes use the best macrobiotic principles adapted to our Western lifestyle and taste.
The Big Beautiful Brown Rice Cookbook
Shows the many ways in which one can correctly cook brown rice and provides over one hundred easy-to-follow kitchen-tested recipes.
The Tao of Chow
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Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems
This book introduces a provocative new branch of social theory: the hypothesis that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It suggests that immune systems function not only as material entities but also as social symbols.
A Fourteen-Year Journey
A Fourteen-Year Journey: Facing Leukemia with Macrobiotics is a story of the courage and dedication while facing cancer to live each day to the fullest, and a valuable contribution to the growing literature exploring the importance of complementary and alternative medicine. With the growing acceptance of Eastern modalities, such as acupuncture in Western medicine, A Fourteen-Year Journey offers you the opportunity to: Explore the gulf separating Western and Eastern medicine, including proof versus performance and the cult of expertiseDiscover the wide range of macrobiotic practices affecting food choices, cooking, eating, chewing, exercising, and sleeping Consider the evidence presented on one woman's fourteen-year journey to control and ultimately reverse an allegedly irreversible blood cancer without chemotherapy or radiationLearn to listen to your own body so that you can become your own best advocateAnd decide that you can take more personal responsibility and control over your own health
Food For Life
Daily food provides fuel and energy for any activity we pursue. What we put into our bodies influences the quality of our lives. "You are what you eat" provides a metaphoric reminder that food choices influence all of our personal actions. "Be" in our shared dream of vital health and inner happiness."Great Life" implies expansiveness. Macrobiotic eating embraces the view that because of our position at the top of the food chain, humans are the only species on earth that have the luxury of eating any food we choose. There is literally nothing on this planet earth that is forbidden in the macrobiotic diet. Perhaps those of you who have read or heard about macrobiotics may be surprised by this statement. It's the "You Can Eat Anything You Want" diet, that includes an awareness of consequences related to the ups and downs that result from food and lifestyle choices.
Reiki and You
Imagine healing through balancing your energies by your own hands! While others have written of Reiki, Reiki and You, Awakening the Healer Within is unique for its Judaic-Christian perspective. Author Lyles traces the history of laying-on of hands and shares the how-to information about this healing modality in twelve easy-reading chapters. Reiki (Ray-Key) is now considered by many medical experts to be an important component of (w)holistic healing. It is currently used in over one hundred hospitals in the United States, including Sloan Kettering in New York. Its gentle, non-invasive ways, which help balance the endocrine system, help you feel and heal better. It is the subtle energy system ...
