The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.French paradox: the mystery (at least to nutritionists) of a population that eats all sorts of supposedly lethal fatty foods, and washes them down with red wine, but which is nevertheless healthier, slimmer, and slightly longer lived than we are. The healthiest food in the supermarket-the fresh produce-doesn’t boast about its healthfulness, because the growers don’t have the budget or the packaging.Humans are one among the few mammals who consume calories via liquid foods after weaning.Any food which contains added sugar is harmful to health.- Eat whole foods and try to avoid liquid food as much as possible.The more processed, longer shelf life products are less nutritious. An ideal consists of mainly plant-based ingredients as less processed as possible.I have also decided to include fermented food at least in one meal per week after reading about its benefits. The practice of having a colourful diet backed up with the idea of phytochemicals was new to me. The French Paradox mentioned in the book was also thought-provoking. But the book brought more clarity to my notion against processed food. BUY FROM AMAZON How the book has changed me?Īs mentioned earlier many ideas were already known to me.
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Stacy Schiff's other books include Saint-Exupery: A Biography and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.Įlena Siebert Photography/Courtesy of Little BrownĪnd at one point, two men who've heard her testimony that day see a strange unnatural creature making unearthly noises by the side of the road. And you can imagine how that went over in a place where women were meant to be submissive and meek and silent." "And one of their first acts after the witchcraft has been diagnosed is to interrupt a minister in meeting. "Their limbs are paralyzed, they contort, they're going into trances, and they're screaming - night and day, screeches," Schiff tells NPR's Renee Montagne. The witch trials were set in motion by two young Salem girls in the grip of strange and disturbing symptoms. In her book The Witches, author Stacy Schiff follows the buildup of fear and outrageous tales of consorting with the devil. How?įor the pious Puritans of early America, witchcraft was a crime of the highest order.īack then, the term "witch hunt" was not just an expression: In 1692, 19 women and men were hanged and one pressed to death with stones after being found guilty of witchcraft. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Witches Subtitle Salem, 1692 Author Stacy Schiff I don’t want you hurting someone by accident. And Jalek, go to the Healing Section to get an application for that. I’ll send for you once I have my reply ready for Malm. Yes, Sire, thank you for the wisdom, Sire, the young warrior said. You have to anticipate to become a well-rounded warrior. I remember when I went through that, but you have to pay more attention to your surroundings and think of what to expect. I humble myself to await your direction, he said, giving Tordin a look that pleaded for understanding. I believe it is the surge making me so out of sorts. Jalek looked away ever so slightly to hide the hint of embarrassment that etched his face. Your duty is to anticipate what your commander wants and to execute what your post entails. I may have a response for Malm, and I have not excused you yet. Jalek handed the antiquated package to him and turned to leave. He stood to cross the expanse of the large personal work chamber. It appears to be something Malm didn’t want the others to see. Sire, the bridge asked if I would transport this to you. C ome in Jalek, he said, eyeing the warrior who reminded him a little too much of himself at that age. Nonviolence refuses to recognize that it can only work for privileged people, who have a status protected by violence, as the perpetrators and beneficiaries of a violent hierarchy.” Nonviolence declares that Africans could have stopped the slave trade with hunger strikes and petitions, and that those who mutinied were as bad as their captors that mutiny, a form of violence, led to more violence, and, thus, resistance led to more enslavement. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass.” Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and was “as bad as” Custer. It ignores that violence is already here that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. “Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. While this tome doesn't achieve the emotional depth of the best historicals, it is a remarkable and wonderfully readable synthesis of fact and fiction. Ingenious plotting allows Follett to explore such salient developments of the era as coal mine safety in Wales, women's suffrage, the diplomatic blundering that led to war, the horrors of trench warfare, and the triumph of the Bolsheviks. The first in Ken Folletts bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of. From a huge cast, eight figures emerge to play multiple roles that illustrate and often illuminate the major events, trends, and issues of the years leading up to and immediately beyond WWI: American diplomat Gus Dewar Earl Fitzherbert, a wealthy Englishman Fitz's sister, Lady Maud German military attaché Walter von Ulrich Russian brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov Welsh collier Billy Williams and his sister, Ethel, whom Fitz hires as a housemaid. This first in a century-spanning trilogy from bestseller Follett (Eye of the Needle) makes effective and economical use of its lead characters, despite its scope and bulk. |