Savvy Eating for the Whole Family or Music and Trance

Savvy Eating for the Whole Family: Whole Foods, Whole Family, Whole Life

Author: Margaret Kocsis

"Savvy Eating for the Whole Family" is a guidebook for those who are confused and frustrated by the plethora of diet books on the market - fad diets that ultimately donâЂ™t work long-term and that leave us fatter and less healthy. Clearly there is something wrong with the way Americans eat.

66% of American adults and 15-30% of AmericaâЂ™s kids are overweight.
Diet-influenced diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes plague our society at increasing rates despite advances in detection and treatment.

To combat the diet gimmicks and junk-food habits, Dr. Kocsis has developed a safe, easy-to-follow action plan to get families, from babies to adults, on the path to healthier eating. In "Savvy Eating for the Whole Family," Dr. Kocsis :

Traces the development of bad eating habits
Shows us how to foster better eating habits in our children and how to avoid family food wars
Dispels myths and explains the current concepts of nutrition in plain terms
Helps the reader learn to choose whole grains in moderation, fruits and vegetables in abundance, the right kinds of proteins, and plenty of healthy fats
Gives practical advice on how to make the necessary dietary changes painlessly
Presents solid, credible nutrition information without confusing charts and calculations
Addresses the needs of the whole family whether an individualâЂ™s goal is to lose weight or eat healthier
Includes meal plans with more than 100 original recipes

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Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession

Author: Gilbert Rouget

Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music—but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of meaning of their cultural context.
Rouget rigorously examines a worldwide corpus of data from ethnographic literature, but he also draws on the Bible, his own fieldwork in West Africa, and the writings of Plato, Ghazzali, and Rousseau. To organize this immense store of information, he develops a typology of trance based on symbolism and external manifestations. He outlines the fundamental distinctions between trance and ecstasy, shamanism and spirit possession, and communal and emotional trance. Music is analyzed in terms of performers, practices, instruments, and associations with dance. Each kind of trance draws strength from music in different ways at different points in a ritual, Rouget concludes. In possession trance, music induces the adept to identify himself with his deity and allows him to express this identification through dance.
Forcefully rejecting pseudo-science and reductionism, Rouget demystifies the so-called theory of the neurophysiological effects of drumming on trance. He concludes that music's physiological and emotional effects are inseparable from patterns of collective representations and behavior, and that music and trance are linked in as many ways as there are cultural structures.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the American Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
1. Trance and Possession
2. Music and Possession
3. Music, Shamanism, Mediumship, Exorcism
4. The Strange Mechanism
Part Two
5. Music and Trance among the Greeks
6. The Renaissance and Opera
7. Music and Trance among the Arabs
8. Conclusion
Discography
Filmography
1. Subject Index
2. Index of Religions, Sects, Divinities, and Religious Figures
3. Index of Ethnic Groups and Places
4. Index of Authors, Individuals, and Characters