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Richard Cohen: “Sugar Love: A Not-So Sweet Story” | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR
Richard Cohen: “Sugar Love: A Not-So Sweet Story” | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR.
An ancient New Guinea myth says the human race originated from the first man making love to a stalk of sugar cane. But in modern times, our love affair with sugar has created a health crisis. The average American consumes nearly 23 teaspoons of sugar a day, three to four times the American Heart Association’s recommended daily limit. Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease have all been linked to excessive consumption. Diane and her guests discuss the history of sugar, why we crave it, how our bodies evolved to process it and why it could be making us sick.
Guests
Richard Cohen
author of “Sugar Love (A Not So Sweet Story)” in the August 2013 edition of National Geographic magazine, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, and author of seven books, including the memoir “Sweet and Low” and “The Monsters,” which will be released in October 2013.
Dr. Richard Johnson
professor of medicine at University of Colorado Denver and author of “Fat Switch” and “Sugar Fix.”
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I AM – Nisargadatti
Of course facts are real! But you live with fancies, not with facts. Facts never clash, while your life and world are full of contradictions. Contradiction is the mark of the false; the real never contradicts itself. For instance, you complain that people are abjectly poor. Yet you do not really share your riches with them. You mind the war and sorrow next door, but you hardly give it a thought when it is in some far off country. The shifting fortunes of your ego determine your values; ‘I think’, ‘I want’, ‘I must’ are made into absolutes.
You give reality to concepts, while concepts are distortions of reality. You are entangled in the web of verbal definitions and formulations. Go beyond your concepts and ideas; in the silence of desire and thought the truth is found. Concern yourself with your mind, remove its distortions and impurities.
Be careful. The moment you start talking you create a verbal universe, a universe of words, ideas, concepts and abstractions, interwoven and inter-dependent, most wonderfully generating, supporting and explaining each other and yet all without essence or substance, mere creations of the mind. Words create words, reality is silent. Words serve their limited purpose of inter-personal communication. Words do not convey facts, they signal them. Once you are beyond the person, you need no words.” ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj — I AM THAT
Krishna Das – About Chanting
The following is an excerpt from Pilgrim of the Heart audio series by Krishna Das:”The words of these chants are called the divine names and they come from a place thats deeper than our hearts and our thoughts, deeper than the mind. And so as we sing them they turn us towards ourselves, into ourselves. They bring us in, and as we offer ourselves into the experience, the experience changes us. These chants have no meaning other than the experience that we have by doing them. They come from the Hindu tradition, but its not about being a Hindu, or believing anything in advance. Its just about doing it, and experiencing. Nothing to join, you just sit down and sing.”
via Krishna Das – About Chanting.
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Colleen Graffy: How to Lose Friends, Citizens and Influence – WSJ.com
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Microsoft Tells The Obama Administration: ‘The Constitution Is Suffering’ Under PRISM (MSFT)
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