“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden
Thirty years ago, S. Boyd Eaton laid out the foundation for the Paleo diet in…
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The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan
Rather than approach stories on their own uncomfortable terms, Rick Warren’s new diet plan pulls exiled, bewildered Daniel away from the king’s table and demands, “Tell me the secret to controlling your carb intake!”
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Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground
Sociologists often talk about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. I’d be happy if readers came away from the book seeing dieting as more complicated, and more problematic, than they had previously thought and efforts at sexual reorientation more akin to popular self-help culture than they would assume. If evangelical readers found Christian practices somewhat strange and non-Christian readers found them oddly familiar, that would be great too.