PART II - What kind of food should I eat?Ĭhapter 22 - Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.Ĭhapter 23 - Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasionfood.Chapter 24 - “Eating what stands on one leg is. Chapter 19 - If it came from a plant, eat it if it was made ina plant, don’t.Chapter 20 - It’s not food if it arrived through the window ofyour car.Chapter 21 - It’s not food if it’s called by the same name inevery language. Chapter 15 - Get out of the supermarket whenever you can.Chapter 16 - Buy your snacks at the farmers’ market.Chapter 17 - Eat only foods that have been cooked byhumans.Chapter 18 - Don’t ingest foods made in places whereeveryone is required to. Chapter 10 - Avoid foods that are pretending to besomething they are not.Chapter 11 - Avoid foods you see advertised on television.Chapter 12 - Shop the peripheries of the supermarket andstay out of the middle.Chapter 13 - Eat only foods that will eventually rot.Chapter 14 - Eat foods made from ingredients that you canpicture in their raw. Chapter 8 - Avoid food products that make health claims.Chapter 9 - Avoid food products with the wordoid “lite” orthe terms “low-fat”.
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Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. 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James for a child, to take the holy waters, and to pray. She and Edgar will embark on a pilgrimage to the fabled monastery of Compostela, to petition St. But fate has a way of playing with mortals, and after suffering several miscarriages and the birth of a stillborn child, Catherine is inspired by a prophetic dream. When Catherine chose love over churchly devotion by falling in love with her Saxon nobleman, Edgar, her family had the earnest hope that married life would settle this most headstrong and unusual woman. In fact, intrigue and murder seem to dog her path. As a former novitiate in the Order of the Paraclete, Catherine LeVendeur has had more than her share of adventures. And sure as the night, one of them will die. As trust beyond her small circle of friends begins to vanish, Gwen has only fury and vengeance to believe in as she closes in on her prey. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away. 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