The Yoga of Eating Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self

The Yoga of Eating is a practical and inspiring manual that offers original insights on the physical and spiritual functions of sugar, fat, meat, and other foods; fasting, dieting, processing, willpower, and the deeper principles of self-nurture. This book appeals to a higher authority--your own body--and shows how to access and trust the wisdom your body has to offer.

Eisenstein (State College, PA) graduated from Yale in Mathematics & Philosophy, was a leading Chinese-English translator and editor of several publications in Taiwan and currently teaches in two departments at Penn State.

1 Introduction
2 The Fallacy of Willpower
3 Body and Soul
4 Birth and Nurturance
5 Food and Personality
6 The Karma of Food
7 The Natural Breath
8 The Central Practice
9 Making It Practical
10 Discovering the Right Diet
11 Distinguishing Appetites from Cravings
12 Loving the Body, Loving the Self
13 Fasting
14 Dieting and Self-Acceptance
15 Fat and the Good
16 Meat and the Life of the Flesh
17 Sugar's Sweetness
18 The Yoga of Drinking
19 Supplements
20 Processing
21 The Yoga of Cooking
22 Food is Only Food
23 Health and the Quest for Wholeness
24 Relaxing Into Change
25 The Illness Seeks the Medicine
26 The Ethics of Eating Meat: A Radical View
27 Endnotes