Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/12/weekend-reading-digesting-recipes/

Susannah Worth.  Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation.  Zero Books, 2015.

I did a blurb for this unusual book:

Digesting Recipes takes an off-beat and highly refreshing post-modern look at cookbooks as markers of cultural identity.  Recipes, it makes clear, are far more than cooking directions.  After reading this, I have a whole new appreciation for what recipes can tell us about the deeper meanings of modern society.

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Source: http://summertomato.com/for-the-love-of-food-272/

Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.

This week industrial food loses power, placebos are getting stronger (?!), and the best way to stay motivated.

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Links of the week

A Seismic Shift in How People Eat <<The Times is arguing that industrial food has taken a major hit and is rethinking their strategy of trying to kill everyone. If this is true it will hopefully mean better food options will be easier to find outside of bougie neighborhoods in big cities. My dreams are coming true.
Being Dishonest About Ugliness <<Ignoring reality rarely makes it easier for people to cope with it. (NY Times)
Is Fat Stigma Making Us Miserable? <<On the flip side, being a jerk doesn’t help anyone either. We all have flaws, but we’re also ALL worthy of love and acceptable exactly…

Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/12/house-appropriations-bill-affects-2015-dietary-guidelines/

The bill just passed by the House contains this language:

SEC. 734. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to release or implement the final version of the eighth edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, revised pursuant to section 301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341), unless the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services ensure that each revision to any nutritional or dietary information or guideline contained in the 2010 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and each new nutritional or dietary information or guideline to be included in the eighth edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

(1) is based on significant scientific agreement; and

(2) is limited in scope to nutritional and dietary information.

SEC. 735.

(a) Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall engage the National Academy of Medicine to conduct a comprehensive study of the entire process used to establish the Advisory Committee for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the subsequent development of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, most recently revised pursuant to section 301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341). The panel of the National Academy of Medicine selected to conduct the study shall include a balanced r…

Source: http://romanfitnesssystems.com/articles/body-recomp/

People tend to fall into one of two extremes when it comes to recomp.

There are those who know little or nothing about fitness. They often have wildly unrealistic expectations, believing that with the right program, they can simultaneously lose twenty pounds of fat while gaining 20 pounds of muscle in a single month. 

Conversely, the people who understand exercise physiology often take the opposite approach, and insist that recomp is bullshit. These people will usually insist that it’s physically impossible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. 

Technically, depending on what you mean by “at the same time,” this second group is right. Your body can never be in both an anabolic and catabolic state at any given moment. However, it’s entirely possible to alternate between the two.

First off, you can lose fat for part of the day and gain muscle for part of the day via intermittent fasting and intelligent post-workout refeeding. 

This method alone, however, will produce glacially slow progress.

So, let’s not even talk about that.  

The other thing you can do is practice your muscle-building skills a few days a…

Source: http://zenhabits.net/perfection/

By Leo Babauta

As we see more and more holiday gift guides, articles espousing the perfectness of glitzy products, I’d like to offer an alternative perspective.

We don’t need to buy things to make our lives beautiful or joyous. We don’t need more glamorous items in our lives to find happiness and contentment. We can find these wonderful qualities in what’s already in front of us.

Most moments, I forget this. In my best moments, I remember, and my heart expands with love for life and everyone around me.

In my mind, these things are perfect, and are proof that we don’t need to buy anything to be happy, cool, excited, contented:

A quiet morning.
A walk outdoors.
Reading one of those books sitting on your shelves.
A cup of tea, drunk slowly.
Family.
A hug.
Meditation.
An avocado.
Berries, savored.
A good workout.
Time to practice sketching.
A song that gets you dancing.
Creating something.
This current moment.
A connection with someone else.
The light of the dying day.
Fallen leaves.
Warmth.
Love.
Learning something new.
Someone wanting your attention.
A friend.
Coconut.
Reflecting on life, in a journal.
People laughing around you.
Imagining future possibilities.
A bite of mango, lingered over.
Writing a love note to someone you miss.
Solitude.
Knowing that you love yourself.
You.
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Source: http://www.sonima.com/yoga/yoga-high/

There’s no question runner’s high exists. Scientists concur that a sense of euphoria can flood the brain after intense exercise, despite not knowing exactly how it works. Until recently, popular belief was that endorphins reduced pain and anxiety in response to physical stress. But new research suggests more chemicals are at play. A Canadian study published in Cell Metabolism this September suggests leptin—a hormone most associated with regulating feelings of hunger and satiety—may contribute to the rewarding effects of running. The brain’s endocannabinoid system may also help produce runner’s high, reports an unrelated German study published last month.

While there’s less discussion about a “high” after gentler forms of exercise like yoga, anyone who has practiced knows it offers a distinct feeling of bliss. Yoga’s immediate physical benefits include improved posture, blood flow, and concentration, plus, nailing a pose you’ve been working on for months adds a gratifying sense of accomplishment. Neurotransmitters, like endorphins, may contribute to the post-yoga “glow”—decreasing pain and increasing elation—but other factors may also be making you extra giddy.

One theory that explains why yoga feel so good is that it fulfills all five principles of the SPIRE model, a philosophy of living in which total wellness is a result of satisfying five key aspects of life: spiritua…

Source: http://www.runningonrealfood.com/vegan-peanut-butter-pretzel-energy-bars/

I had almost a whole bag of mini-pretzels left over after making my Dark Chocolate-Covered Mocha Truffles and thank goodness for that because out of it came these No-Bake Vegan Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars! Woop, woop! I. am. obsessed. Sweet, salty, chewy, crunchy. Someone please come take them all away from me!! No, no, no. I…

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Sure lots of pro athletes do yoga asanas, but how many meditate or consider themselves “mindful”…and are on a hot winning streak?

Enter the team with the best start to a season in any American professional sport ever! 2015 NBA Champions, the Golden State Warriors.

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“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” ~John Steinbeck

Around six years ago I started to meditate. I had a spiritual awakening, and life started to look really different.

I have always been a feeler and reader of emotion, but this was different. It was like I was synchronized with everyone around me, as if everyone else was connected to me in some strange and mysterious way.

It later turned out to be the case that everyone is connected to me, the same way everyone is connected to you. That we are all made up of the same stuff and really we are just one giant organism connected to the same sphere of consciousness.

I believe that if you project hate, hate is what you will receive, and if you project love, you will be showered with love.

This is a strange concept, and one that I am sure many of you think is a little crazy, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and what is a reality to me may not be a reality to you.

For me to claim my version of reality is the one truth that exists from over seven billion minds on the planet would be pretty egotistical and naïve.

The fact is …

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Awkward! Yoga IRL is not always peace, love, and birds of paradise. For instance, sometimes chakras are aligned a little too well between teacher and student, if you know what we mean, and lines are crossed. This new digital series takes a Girls-esque approach to the adventures of yoga teaching, yoga practicing and the yoga […]

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