One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit

by Don Gerrard

Book Overview

One Bowl proposes a simple but extraordinarily powerful idea: By adopting a single bowl as the vessel for your meals, you will become more aware of the food you eat, how you eat, and the effects (large and small) of particular foods on your body and your spiritual and physical well-being. Author Don Gerrard guides us through every process of adapting to the one-bowl philosophy of eating, including choosing a bowl, deciding what to fill it with,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569246270
• ISBN13: 9781569246276
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Interesting book

One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit is interesting and inspirational. In reality, it is very difficult to follow.

Mindful nourishment

Start with one meal per day: No mindless, emotional, frantic shoveling of food into your face. Eat what calls to you, eat with attention, and you will be satisfied. Take the time to appreciate what you put into your body: the flavors, textures, and nourishment. I searched for my "one bowl" [...]

One Bowl Concept

Excellent method with philosophical and spiritual overtones to assist you to gain perspective and "control" of your eating and your entire point of view about food and meal times. Well done.

A Path Back to Trusting Our Bodies

This book is a classic food book. It's first manifestation was way back in the 70s, a thin volume that nevertheless was packed with wisdom about how to get back in touch with our bodies and our nutritional needs. Nearly 30 years later its prescriptions, or perhaps I should say "non-prescriptions," still hold as true as ever. The author tells us, in a warm but informative way, how to read our bodies inner messages about what we need to stay healthy. The key is eating from one bowl and paying attention in some very unusual ways--at least unusual in today's culture--to foods that "hum," for example, and how we can make use of this information for making healthy choices. I think that one of the greatest contributions this book makes is that it teaches us how to make choices from the inside out--choices that bring us closer to our bodies and closer to ourselves.