So: Ask yourself not, Am I full ?but, Is my hunger gone?That moment will arrive several bites sooner.
Since the body can’t break down resistant starch, it slips through the digestive track without ever turning into calories of glucose—a particular boon, we’re told, for diabetics. When fake sugars and...
Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which ma...
Ralph Waldo Emerson crossing a wintry New England commons in Nature: Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I becom...
Our mental health depends on a mechanism for editing the moment-by-moment ocean of sensory data flowing into our consciousness down to a manageable trickle of the noticed and remembered. The cannabino...
One would expect to find a comparatively high proportion of carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] in the flesh of people whose staple food of choice is corn - Mexicans, most famously. Americans eat much mo...
One of the things that commends travel, art, nature, work, and certain drugs to us is the way these experiences, at their best, block every mental path forward and back, immersing us in the flow of a...
On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver, able to tune in to frequencies of energy and information that exist...
Nutritionism prefers to tinker with the Western diet, adjusting the various nutrients (lowering the fat, boosting the protein) and fortifying processed foods rather than questioning their value in the...
Nutrition science, which after all only got started less than two hundred years ago, is today approximately where surgery was in the year 1650—very promising, and very interesting to watch, but are yo...
Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too much of a bad thing instead of too little of a good thing.
Much of gardening is a return, an effort at recovering remembered landscapes.
Most recipes try to rush the process, promising to wrap things up & get the dish on the table in a couple of hours. These days recipes are steeped in the general sense of panic about time & so have tr...
Mendel Kaelen, a Dutch postdoc in the Imperial lab, proposes a more extended snow metaphor: Think of the brain as a hill covered in snow, and thoughts as sleds gliding down that hill. As one sled afte...
Jesse’s curiosity about psychedelics was first piqued during a drug education unit in his junior high school science class. This particular class of drugs was neither physically nor psychologically ad...
It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to...
It seemed to me not too much to ask of a meat eater, . . that at least once in his life he take some direct responsibility for the killing on which his meat-eating depends.
Institutions generally like to mediate the individual’s access to authority
Individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states, one of the researchers was quoted as saying. They return with a new perspective and profound accept...
In the modern view, the pitched roof was itself a dead concept, but equally unhealthywere all those other dead concepts that got stored underneath the gable, in the attic. For there is where the ghost...