Michael Pollan’s new book is called IN DEFENSE OF FOOD. In it, he disparages something he calls “The Western Diet”. This “Western Diet” is made up, not of food, but of “foodlike substances” sold in supermarkets. Michael wants to get us back to eating real food.
Hello Michael? Hello? What is this “Western” nonsense?
Has Europe been [...]
All the parents of teenaged girls I know in California have daughters in crisis. Several are in treatment for drugs, alcohol, mental health and/or eating disorders. One started cutting. Another has a pending felony charge, related to things she did on meth. These are not the daughters of people struggling against appalling conditions in the [...]
An anthropologist friend of mine told me a set of interesting facts last night in a California hot tub.
First of all, if girls and boys live together before the age of about 6, they will tend not to be sexually attracted to each other. Kibbutz children, for example, raised communally, do not tend to marry [...]
I have begun to notice a new conversation being had. It’s so new that I have been skirting around it for quite a while, without having the vocabulary for it. But then someone, after listening to me flounder for a while with much splashing and gasping, gave me the phrase I needed: “personal sustainability”. A [...]
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