Both adults and children enjoy a good spread on a healthy whole grain bread. For a healthy low-fat spread, that supplies even more nutrients, try this fresh Banana Coconut Spread and choose a whole grain and stone ground bread. Number of servings: 1, 320 calories per serving. Ingredients: 5 Tbsp virgin coconut oil (unrefined is […]
Archives for October 2006
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
Winner of four major awards, Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s Fasting Girls, presents a history of women’s food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, “wonders of science” whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and […]
Fasting and Religious Mystics
Inedia, the alleged ability to live without food, is a fast-based lifestyle originally established within the Catholic tradition. In Christianity, the notion of inedia holds that certain saints and mystics were able to survive for extended periods of time without food or drink other than the Eucharist. The Catholic saints and mystics claimed to have […]