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2014 September/October
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Veg Out
Ready to take the leap? Suzy Amis Cameron shares her favorite resources for embracing a plant-based diet.
An Oasis in the Food Desert
While it seems you can’t walk down the street these days without running into a community garden, many low-income neighborhoods still lack access to healthy and affordable food. Th…
5 Questions for John Robbins
1. What are some of the most inspiring cultural shifts you have seen since Diet for a New America was published?People are growing increasingly aware that what we do to the earth, …
Recipes for Good Health
Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Ready to take the ancient Greek physician’s advice? These five new cookbooks will help.
Richard Oppenlander: The Myth of Moderation
The author of Comfortably Unaware and Food Choice and Sustainability on why eating humane and local isn’t enough, and why there’s no such thing as a “sustainable” meat.
34 Affirmations for Healthy Living
Try positive self-talk to eat better, feel stronger, and rejuvenate your body.
The New “Multivore” Family
How to manage the kitchen and keep the peace in a vegan and omnivore household.
Soul Proprietor
Shamanic healers help clients overcome trauma and find healing through the practice of journeying and soul retrieval.
Dr. Dean Ornish: A Simple Choice for Powerful Health Benefits
The renowned physician and researcher on food addiction, the protein myth, and the power of love and connection to strengthen our health.
In Our Prayers
On a visit with her grandparents, writer Brittany Shoot witnesses the heartfelt beauty of epic, narrative prayer.
The Experience of Enough
I read Geneen Roth’s best-selling When Food Is Love 20 years and 30 pounds ago. For the first time in my life since I was six, I stopped dieting and started listening to what my bo…Columns
Close to the Ground: A Drop in the Bucket
It is 7:30 a.m. on a sunny spring day. Bodhi the dog is walking with me along Bandon Beach, one of Oregon’s most beautiful coastlines. It is pristine. The air is filled with that w…
Rabbi Rami: "Does what I eat really matter?"
Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler
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• Food Choices
Features
Joy Harjo: Ancestor of a Poem
The acclaimed Native American artist, poet, and musician reflects on tapping into the creative source, bearing the pain of cultural appropriation, and learning to embrace fear.
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• Native American
One-Dish Wonders!
Vegan endurance athlete Rich Roll and his wife, chef Julie Piatt, show us how to pack all the nutrition we need into one bowl in their new book, The Plantpower Way.
Surprising Superfoods
Move over, acai berries—these six unusual ingredients pack a powerful nutritional punch.
Unconventional Medicine
Dr. Neal Barnard on beating food cravings, the myth of moderation, and the health-changing power of a plant-based diet.
Holding Fast
Long practiced to purify body and mind, the discipline of fasting finds new relevance in modern research that points to powerful benefits to abstaining from food.
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• Fasting
Reviews
Music Review: The Master
The MasterWarren Cuccurullo and Ustad Sultan KhanSix Degrees RecordsTalk about a musical journey: when guitarist Warren Cuccurullo was 10 years old, he took to the sounds of I…Tags:
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Music Review: Spiraling, Ascending with Prayer
Spiraling, Ascending with PrayerLouie GonnieCanyon RecordsSpiraling, Ascending with Prayer opens with creation: “There was a time when darkness was it. In the vast emptiness, light…Tags:
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Music Review: Beautiful Love
Beautiful LovePaulinho GarciaJazzmin Records and Shrinktunes MediaBeautiful Love, by Paulinho Garcia could be the perfect soundtrack for this scene in your life: enjoying a sunset …Tags:
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Music Review: The Tree of Life
The Tree of LifeLoren Nerell and Mark SeeligProjektThe Tree of Life is a new album that’s described by its creators as “one part droney soundscape, one part tribal deliberatio…Tags:
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Music Review: Ritual
RitualPeter Kater and R. Carlos NakaiMysterium Music Rituals are about presence, intention, and creating sacred space. Rituals also are brought to life through a process of play a…
Music Review: Love Songs of a Zen Monk
Love Songs of a Zen MonkDavid RadioCD BabyWith a title like that, you might expect a blank CD inside the cover.After all, Zen is nothing if not contradictions. But since its morsel…
Book Review: This Life Is Joy
This Life Is JoyDiscovering the Spiritual Laws to Live More Powerfully, Lovingly, and HappilyBy Roger TeelTarcher/PenguinBefore television (and televangelists), New Thought spiritu…
Book Review: Yoga and Body Image
Yoga and Body Image25 Personal Stories about Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your BodyEdited by Melanie Klein and Anna Guest-JelleyLlewellyn WorldwideYoga and Body Image is a boo…
Book Review: The Marshmallow Test
The Marshmallow TestMastering Self-ControlBy Walter MischelLittle, BrownThe experiment that Walter Mischel developed in a Stanford University lab nearly 50 years ago—offering presc…
