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“I [started out] among the skeptics who felt food addiction was a copout. But after meeting Prager and reading his book, my view has shifted.” — JENNIFER LaRUE HUGET, Eat, Drink and Be Healthy columnist, Washington Post
“A compelling description of the process of addiction.” — JOSEPH FRASCELLA, National Institute on Drug Abuse
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Above: a contemporary photo; Below: the "before" picture.
I had a fat and troubled childhood that lasted almost 35 years, and my body reached 365 pounds. I could lose weight, but I always gained it back and more. Then, on the advice of others, I started accepting standard addiction treatment, and now I'm approaching 20 years in a normal-sized body. In that time, public acceptance of food addiction has barely moved, and insurance support for treatment has regressed.
Both of those need to change, and my story tells why. I'm no diet guru, and this isn't a diet book, but if I escaped more than a decade above 300 pounds, lots of others can find relief too.
It's a good read with a happy ending, and it could change your life.
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Eating local
For someone turning to the whole food, whole earth, locavore lifestyle, I still have some glaring "opportunities for growth," which is to say practices that could be a lot truer to my talk. (I've also heard those expressed as AFGOs: "another f'ing growth opportunity.") I know that, like all of us, I'm a work in progress, but still, I'm reminded of the quite irreverent-but-true epithet my college buds used to toss: "Let's see you do it, then spout off."
What brings me to this topic was my morning apple, a Macintosh from Pennsylvania. Macs are OK, but I much prefer Pink Ladys, followed by Granny Smiths, and that's what I've been buying forever. This week, however, I finally woke up to, and accepted, the fact that these apples, this time of year, are sent from Chile and New Zealand, respectively.
Yes, I know that the embedded energy of the overseas apples could actually be less than the PA Macs, but I don't know this, and so I went for closer. It'd be great to see embedded-energy labeling, but I don't see a groundswell for that.
On this thread of thought, I again recommend James Howard Kuntsler's "World Made By Hand," in which he uses the novel, in part, to sketch out what a breakdown of world commerce would mean for eating habits. Under that sort of circumstance, there would be no slow comings-to-Jesus.
In the meantime, there's the Macintosh, finally. And plenty of AFGOs to go.
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