Chocolate and Yoga

Eating Chocolate During Yoga Now a Good Idea?
The latest Times trend piece looks at a new combination of exercise and indulgence that is taking the city by storm: foodie yoga. Yes, combining the ancient and often holy practice of yoga with [pig] and [fermented sugar] has become extremely popular.

One yoga teacher, Sadie Nardini, claims it is a backlash against the "yogier than thou" mentality that purists hold.But is eating while doing yoga pushing the "anything goes" idea a little too far? While people have indulged in both yoga and food trends for decades, many studios are bringing the food into the classroom. Exhale Spa offers a "Yoga for Foodies" class... More>>

What is Chocolate?

(Wisdom Quarterly) Did you know that chocolate grows on trees? It is the seed of a tropical fruit tree (mixed with a sweetener). It is the most popular food in the world that most people have never eaten. The reason for that is that what people eat is often a synthetic compound (flavoring) or a burned, fermented extract stripped of its amazing oils, which are replaced by cow fats, wax, and poisonous hydrogenated trans fats. For the Aztecs, as its Latin binomial Theobroma cacao reveals, chocolate is "cocoa, food of the gods [devas]." Try the real thing, raw and unadulterated: Naked Chocolate: The Astounding Truth About World's Greatest Food