My attitude toward food is guided by a sense of reverence. Simply put I respect food. So the foods I select to eat are chosen with this sense of reverence and it’s prime attribute moderation.
What follows are two short, highly personal, stories on reverence and moderation of food.
A few days ago I stumbled onto a small discarded picture frame near the dumpster at work. It was turned upside-down, tossed by who knows and curious I picked it up to see what, if anything, it framed.
I discovered a profound statement.
In small pink needle point the statement declared “The Human Body Is Not A Garbage Can”.
I took it home, cleaned it up and it now hangs on the wall of my office beside my desk–I see it and read every time I come in to work and I think about it often.
Like today. I thought about the framed declaration today when I read about Jennifer Strange, a 28 year old woman in Sacramento, California who drank herself to death with water. She had entered one of those truly irreverent contests where whoever drinks or eats the most wins.
She did not win.
According to the AP report in today’s LA Times...