Winning the Food Fight or Yoga and the Hindu Tradition

Winning the Food Fight: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide to Introducing Variety into Your Child's Diet

Author: Natalie Rigal

PARENTING / NUTRITION

“Well researched and thoughtfully presented, Natalie Rigal has given us wonderful ideas for the all-important task of nourishing our children. She shows us how to naturally and gracefully work with young ones so eating becomes both an exploration and a pleasure. Bravo!”
--Marc David, author of The Slow Down Diet

“Food is not just our fuel, it’s also the raw material of our bodies and our brains--and particularly that of our children. Natalie Rigal’s book provides a great insight into how to help children discover and learn to love foods that are actually good for them!”
--Thom Hartmann, author of The Edison Gene and Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

One of the most common problems faced by parents is how to inspire their children to taste a new food--to try just one bite! Natalie Rigal, a child psychologist who has extensively researched questions of taste, explains the often complex attitudes children bring with them to the dinner table and offers parents creative ways to get children to approach eating with the same curiosity and enthusiasm they display toward other activities. Using experiences with her own two children, as well as the latest research in the field, she shows that children’s tastes often manifest at a very young age and are connected to an intricate combination of family habits and social influences. She reveals why most children prefer sweet foods to salty ones, familiar foods to new ones, and why children often prefer the meals they share with their grandparents and friends over those with their parents and siblings--andwhat parents can do about this.

Rigal explains that the aversion children express to most foods can be overcome by learning how to speak with them about what they are going to be eating--not just its flavor, but its consistency, appearance, and the sound it makes when eaten. She shows that encouraging a child’s natural instinct to experiment can provide the inspiration needed to try even those vegetables that are most universally loathed by children. Finding pleasure in eating has been shown to be the secret to why "French women don’t get fat.” It is also the secret gateway to getting your children to eat the nutritious foods they need.

NATALIE RIGAL is senior lecturer at the University of Paris at Nanterre, where she teaches developmental child psychology. She is one of the foremost researchers in the psychology of taste. She lives in Paris.

Natalie Rigal is senior lecturer at the University of Paris at Nanterre, where she teaches developmental child psychology. She lives in Paris.

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Yoga and the Hindu Tradition

Author: Jean Varenn

A popular and critical success when it first appeared in France, Yoga and the Hindu Tradition has freed Yoga from the common misconceptions of the recent Yoga vogue. Jean Varenne, the distinguished French Orientalist, presents the theory of classical Yoga, in all its richness, as a method—a concrete way to reach the Absolute through spiritual exercises—which makes possible the transition from existence to essence.
This excellent translation, including line drawings and charts, a glossary of technical terms, and a complete translation of the Yoga Darshana Upanishad, begins with a brief description of the metaphysical and religious history on which Yoga is based. Varenne discusses the theoretical conception of Yoga as the search for liberating knowledge, concluding with a brief indication of the physical practices and extra Yogic themes such as Kundalini and Tantrism. It is the author's hope that "those who read [this book] will come to realize that it is in fact dishonest to reduce Yoga to some sort of physical training, or to just an occult doctrine; it is a 'world view' a Weltanschauung that comprehends reality in its totality."
"The straightforward, well-organized presentation makes the book itself a microcosm of what Varenne singles out as a dominant feature of classical Hindu thought—a bringing of the complex and multitudinous into a unity."—Judith Guttman, Yoga Journal

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part One. Man and the Universe
1. The Cosmic Order
2. Man as Analogue
3. Sarvam Duhkham
Part Two. In Search of the Absolute
4. Knowledge
5. The Migratory Bird
6. From Yogas to Yoga
Part Three. The Royal Art
7. Taming the Body
8. Dissolving the Mind
9. Seeing God Face to Face
Part Four. The Eternal Feminine
10. The Divine Couple
11. The Subtle Body
12. The Power of the Serpent
Conclusion
Yoga Darshana Upanishad
Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index