What would jesus EAT…

 Jenny craig Pizza?

**An Encouraging Word, Vol. 16**

an occasional note from Jean Fain

 Harvard Medical School psychotherapist & hypnosis instructor

 Published January 14, 2008

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner…

If The Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body to Awaken Your Spirit.  I love this book title! I love it because it raises questions about the everyday fare we serve ourselves. Like if your favorite divine guest were coming to dinner, would you serve a Jenny Craig frozen entrée?  McDonald’s take-out? Probably not.

“Most likely,” the book’s author Hale΄ Sofia Schatz writes, “you’d spend time shopping and preparing the freshest, most tasty wholesome meal you could produce with your very own hands, in your very own kitchen.”

Schatz’s book invites anyone who considers themselves a spiritual being to ask the more important question: What would you feed yourself if you honored the spirit within?

Schatz makes a persuasive case for cooking and eating mindfully, and a less solid argument for periodically cleansing the body’s toxins. I’m not a big fan of cleanses. I don’t think human toxins build up like so much gunk on oven walls. Nor do I think a cleansing food diet like Schatz’s or liquid cleanses can right long-standing nutritional wrongs.

Even so, after reading Schatz’s book, I took my inspiration to the kitchen and tried one of her yummy-sounding soup recipes. When my hunger asked for more cauliflower and carrot soup, I was happy to ladle up second and third helpings. Be forewarned, many of the recipes, including the cauliflower soup, are cleansing recipes. If only I’d read the fine print. ‘Nough said?

I am whole-heartedly recommending the first half of Schatz’s book to clients. As for the second half? Proceed with caution. Here’s the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/If-Buddha-Came-Dinner-Nourish/dp/078686883X

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Why A Twinkie?…

If an extraordinary guest were coming to dinner, would you serve Twinkies for dessert? Before you jump to conclusions based strictly on nutrition science, I invite you to check out my new YouTube video, “Why A Twinkie?”  Here’s the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=egMjE1_YGII

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Food For Thought…

Practice nourishment. Practice it so well, you forget you’re even doing it. When we learn something that completely, we have a saying for it. We say that you know it by heart.

--Hale’ Sofia Schatz

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In addition to seeing clients in private practice, Jean Fain teaches hypnosis at Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and she writes for O, The Oprah Magazine, among other women's magazines. More information about Jean Fain’s services and weight-loss CDs is available on her website (www.jeanfain.com).

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