3 posts tagged “health”

Eating your way to health

Is the greatest source of information about healthy foods the site http://whfoods.org/index.html ?

They tell us the following about the healthiest foods:

The World's Healthiest Foods

130 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating. Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.

Of course, there are many other nutritious foods other than those that we have included on our list that we feel are wonderful, health-promoting foods; if there are other whole foods - such as fruits, vegetables, nuts/seeds, whole grains, etc - that you like, by all means enjoy them. Just because a food is not on our list doesn't mean that we don't think that it can be included in a diet geared towards the Healthiest Way of Eating as long as it is a whole, natural, nutrient-rich food.

To find out why some of your favorite nutritious foods are not included in our list, read The Criteria Used to Select the World's Healthiest Foods.

Common Knowledge Trust

Is common sense rarer than hen's teeth?  Not quite but it seems to be rare and getting rarer. 

Since common sense is in such short supply amongst our 'rulers and betters', and since the deification of the (disconnected) expert is so widespread - along with manipulation of the uninitiated - I have decided to blog any examples of common sense that I come across!

Please send me any examples you come across.  Here is an interesting example that has as its aim the sharing of traditional indigenous health knowledge of cultures around the world.  They are the Common Knowledge Trust and they say;

About Common Knowledge Trust

Common Knowledge Trust is a grassroots organization interested in sharing the traditional and indigenous health knowledge of cultures around the world.

Initially formed as an incorporated not-for-profit in Australia in 1993, the Trust was also established as a Registered Charitable Trust in 1995 in New Zealand. We hold an affiliation to the Traditional and Medical Clinic run by Dr. Barbara Sibanda in Zimbabwe. (See the Gathering Newsletter)

The Goals and Objectives of the Trust are:

      greenarrow.gif: To help transmit the diverse health knowledge from cultures worldwide.
      greenarrow.gif: To encourage the preserving of cultural health knowledge in an era when the homogenization of modern health systems is occurring throughout the world.

http://www.commonknowledgetrust.com/why_how.htm

Massimo Introvigne has a very interesting paper entitled Fighting the three Cs: Cults, Comics, and Communists The Critic of Popular Culture as Origin of Contemporary Anti-Cultism--www.cesnur.org

 The paper is here http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=14719&sec=44&con=52

 A flavour of the paper can be gained from this paragraph;

 The Frankfurt theory, as re-elaborated in the United States, argued that vulnerable members of the society, including children in general and members of the working classes with limited education, are at first implicitly prepared and later subtly indoctrinated into totalitarian and authoritarian worldviews through the triple agency of authoritarian, cultic religion (that Fromm finally distinguished from the type of religion he called humanistic), popular culture, and black-and-white political slogans. To some extent in this criticism medium and message coincided: authoritarian (later called cultic) religion, the simple ideology of popular culture, and Communism (or Fascism) were both the medium and the aim of totalitarian influence. It is also the case that, in traveling from continental Europe to the U.S., the Frankfurt theory of totalitarian influence was somewhat reduced in scope. Not all religion was believed to predispose to totalitarianism, only the cultic variety. Not all political black-and-white slogans were evidence of totalitarianism, only Communist (and Nazi, but the latter were no longer an actual danger). Not all popular culture was bad: the powerful American movie industry was largely left alone. The U.S. version of the Frankfurt theory became the theoretical support for a struggle against what one may call the three Cs: cults, Communism, and comics.

 The site as a whole - http://www.wwrn.org/mission.html - says this about itself:

 WorldWide Religious News

Mission Statement

 WorldWide Religious News is a non-profit service to provide the international academic and legal community (as well as various government agencies) with up to date religious news from around the world. WWRN was initiated with the goal of promoting religious freedom and tolerance.

Its objectives are:

 To instill values of religious tolerance and understanding on an international basis. WWRN holds the principle of religious freedom and tolerance to be one of the most important essential human rights as stated in article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

 "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and the freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."

To provide accurate up-to-date information for professionals and academics interested in religious freedom issues and legislation being enacted around the world affecting religion.

To provide a source of information for academics and professionals interested in trends relating to new religious movements, their growth and presence around the world and interaction with society at large.

As an information resource, WWRN also provides information on "anti-cult" and "counter-cult" trends, their interaction with government and media in attempts to suppress religious movements

To provide links to other Web sources supplying information on religion, government reports on religion and human rights, academic profiles on religious groups, etc.

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SunWALK is a framework to help you articulate your model of (holistic) education & evaluate others.

What then is the real difference between the 'holistically minded teacher/practitioner'

and the 'non holistically-minded teacher/practitioner'?

 
After thinking about this for the last 14 years my best answer to date is that;

the holistically minded practitioner is trying to do each particular thing, theoretical

and practical, with consciousness of connections with, and between,

all pertinent contexts - environmental context, social justice context etc. -

right up to and including

some sense of the eternally mysterious Whole.