Why Fast?: Food Controversies
Autor Christine Baumgarthuberen Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2023
Fasting from food is a controversial, dangerous, and yet utterly normal human practice. In Why Fast?, Christine Baumgarthuber engages our fascination with restrictive eating in cultural history. If fasting offers few health benefits, why do people fast? Why have we always fasted? Does fasting speak to something deep and immutable within us? Why are our bodies so well adapted to intermittent fasting? And, what might this ancient, ascetic ritual offer us today? Thoughtful and considered, Why Fast? is a sober reconsideration of a contentious practice.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789147636
ISBN-10: 1789147638
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 200 x 121 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Food Controversies
Seria Food Controversies
ISBN-10: 1789147638
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 200 x 121 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Food Controversies
Seria Food Controversies
Notă biografică
Christine Baumgarthuber is the creator of The Austerity Kitchen, a one-of-a-kind culinary history blog, and author of Fermented Foods, also published by Reaktion Books. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Cuprins
1 A Hunger for More: Fasting and Its Purposes from Antiquity to the Present
2 Food for Thought: Fasting Throughout the Ages
3 The Physician Within: Fasting for Health
4 Seeing Less of You: The Promise of Fasting for Weight Loss
5 The Wages of Thin: The Dangers of Fasting for Weight Loss
EPILOGUE Of Apps and Appetite: The Future of Fasting
References
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Acknowledgements
Index
2 Food for Thought: Fasting Throughout the Ages
3 The Physician Within: Fasting for Health
4 Seeing Less of You: The Promise of Fasting for Weight Loss
5 The Wages of Thin: The Dangers of Fasting for Weight Loss
EPILOGUE Of Apps and Appetite: The Future of Fasting
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Recenzii
"To fast, or not to fast? That is a question many people ask when considering healthier wellbeing options. Christine Baumgarthuber answers this question, along with much more information on the history and benefits of fasting."
"This multifaceted, clear-eyed account explores issues around fasting, including its health benefits and risks, why we are so well adapted to undergo it, and how we can balance its benefits with the demands of our busy lives.”
"Fasting is deeply embedded in most of the world's major faiths. This book makes a modern argument offering a new form of transformation and redemption."