note: message from bodhi follows this impersonal forward from reuters -=-=- Thursday May 29 6:02 PM EDT Jenny Craig must warn weight loss is only temporary By David Lawsky WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuter) - From now on, Jenny Craig Inc. (JC) must warn consumers its weight loss methods are usually only temporary, the federal government said Thursday. Similar charges against Weight Watchers were pulled from litigation a week ago pending the possibility of a settlement with the FTC. aloha all, i read in today's paper [santa cruz sentinel] that the ftc has filed an unfair-advertising complaint against r.j. reynolds tobacco company, alleging that its colorful joe camel campaign illegally seeks to entice youngsters to smoke camels. i envision a world where we don't need laws to protect us from a television that tells us a sugar-coated children's cereal "is part of this complete breakfast" (pictured in a bowl of milk with a glass of o.j. & buttered toast right beside it). if this image brings on any cravings, i suggest seeing the "balanced breakfast" (or nachos or angel hair pasta or chocolate or ...) covered in a pile of puke. removes the temptation quite nicely for me. feel free to experiment with vivid visualization of the pesky cooked food sitting in a pile of any body secretion that you fancy. of course, if you deep down *do* wish to eat steamed vegetables (or whatever...), go for it with all your sensations open. luminosity happens. stefan, i have eaten egg yolks from chickens & ducks with immense pleasure. the white remains uninteresting, the shell intimidating. i've yet to get a "go" from either, nor a "stop" for egg yolks. i've eaten a dozen yolks at a time, stopping when i ran out because my habit has me buying one carton at a time. my neo-cortex has an attraction to eating one egg day (i beleive hygeinic doctor d.j. scott advocates this daily ritual). my neo-cortex also has an attraction to eating instinctively, which i do more of the time now than not (still mix some salads, avocado nori rolls, etc.). yet i have a strong belief in the power of calorie restriction, so eating 56 eggs at once may not bring me to a stop (organic eggs, probably fed grains, i usually get from the people at http://www.judysfarm.com [i haven't gotten through to this site, but it remains printed on their carton]). the non-instincto quality of the chicken eggs doesn't place it out of my dietary consideration, just makes me more cautious (don't wait for the stop/thought stop). luigi cornaro did well with his sobriety, eating raw & cooked food (including egg yolks). he allowed himself only 12 ounces of food a day, plus 14 ounces of liquid, and i reccomend any health seeker to check out the story somewhere at http://chetday.com . peter, i once wrote a report in sixth grade about mohandas karamchand gandhi. i erroneously typed the mahatma's name as "ghandi" throughout. my teacher (the best i ever had in grade school) pointed out that i could remember how to spell his last name: we share the last three letters of our name. bodhi <---> gandhi. i found this delightful & i've remembered ever since. "you may call me anything" bob dylan says in his hit from the 70's, _gotta_serve_somebody_. due to my favorite singer going into the hospital over the weekend (announced wednesday by his london publicist as the reason for cancelling the bob dylan europe '97 tour). bob has doctors telling him & the world that he has "histoplasmosis, a fungal heart infection." if you heard cnn's story about a *lung* infection, know that they got it *wrong*. the sac around the heart may swell, & in a few rare cases of "massive infection" can result in death. i pray for bob. (maybe he'll fly to france & eat only orkos-chow. naaaah....). in honor of bob, i give you his words: ~~~ Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk, Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk, You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread, You may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You're gonna have to serve somebody, Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody. You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy, You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy, You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray, You may call me anything but no matter what you say You're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You're gonna have to serve somebody. Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody. ~~~ imported from: http://fciav3.bsd.uchicago.edu/~jrr/lyrics/24gotta_.html as i often find with bob's songs, i resonate more with the spirit of some lines than the literal meaning some may impose upon it. i react to the chorus with the thought that we have more than the two choices presented (the devil vs. the lord). then again, if i translate the terms into words more comfortable to my world-view, like "it may be the fear or it may be the love, but you're gonna have to serve somebody." do all emotions ultimately originate from these two extremes, or do we acknowledge a multiplicity? for that matter, do all foods fall into the two categories of "raw vs. cooked", or do we find a spectrum of foods from factory beef to conventional produce to organic foods to biodyanmic to permaculture to wild to fermented to unknown? what about foods that have *some* enzymes left, partially denatured. lightning-struck food, forest-fire food, lava-flow food, geothermally-boiled food, asteroid-impact food, and what of eating soil (raw, unsterilized earth). organically farming the intestines with rock dust. sure, we can't use inorganic chemicals (or so paul bragg et. al tells us over & over), but what about the bacteria in our intestines? couldn't they thrive on the atomic elements and bind them up with proteins (chelation), then offer us the finished product as they die or discharge waste filled with organic residue. and what of magnets? tickles me pink to watch bo7b broach the subject. i've got a book on magnet-therapy from india i plan on sending bo7b, so he can assemble the best idea of what the heck our bio-electro-magnetic fields need in this age of wavelength & frequency pollution. modern technocratic man has changed things plenty with radio & power lines & h.a.a.r.p. & who-knows-what-else, so i don't discount the possibility of magnet self-defense benefiting our immune system. with apologies to ellie, why eat food at all when we may someday soon just charge up with pure electricity? (apologies to the list-yogis & list-yoginis who charge up on the sun's electricity, balance their electromagnetic fields with plants & crystals & mud baths & mental concentration & have no use for electric shocks or magnetic beds. [the well-known yogi, paramahansa yogananda, did teach his devotees to perform kriya meditation on a woolen blanket, covered with silk, to counteract the earth's "downward magnetic pull". sadhus & holy men in india teach that one should place a corpse with the head facing north, & the living should *not* sleep with their head like this {polewards}, but with the head facing east. i remember ann wigmore propounding in one of her books {_naturama_?} that those in the northern hemisphere should sleep with head pointing north, those in the southern hemisphere with head pointing south, & those on the equator east. for ann & the wise ones of india to agree, one would have to live on the equator {did ann define that as within the tropic of capricorn & the tropic of cancer? i have no idea, but this subject fascinates me. those of us in the north must choose between the wheatgrass lady & the vedic pandits, while those in the south have a similar choice, but i don't know what india's swami's have to say about south. probably, "east is better."]) still praying for bob's health & discovery of rawness? he did write in _union_sundown_: ~~~ They used to grow food in Kansas Now they want to grow it on the moon and eat it raw. I can see the day coming when even your home garden Is gonna be against the law. ~~~ i have an unreleased, bootleg version of the song in an earlier incarnation where bob sings the second line as "now they want to grow it on the moon". i wonder what incident, person, book, or what sparked bob to add the phrase "and eat it raw"? anyone out there with connections to the zimmerman family? bob's son, jakob dylan, has gotten progressively more well known as the lead singer in _the_wallflowers_, which have released two splendid albums. i heard a live version of their hit song _5th_avenue_heartache_. i had in my hands news of bob's chest pains & potential heart swelling while his youngest son (for whom he wrote _forever_young_) belted out crisp lines, ending the chorus with a long, drawn out heartaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaaache. alright, i'll admit to dylan addiction. i have developed a tolerance, but i blame my dad. he played it throughout my childhood, back through to when i floated in my mommy's belly. [[just now i wandered away from the computer and picked some dark-red plums ripening in the sun down the block. those on the tree taste cool from the leaf-shading, while those on the ground tasted hot & often sweeter, ever so slightly dehydrating in the afternoon sun. we return to your regular broadcast.]] my first year of college, 80-90% of my on-line time i devoted to reading about all-things-dylan. my second year of college i spent 80-90% of my hours in front of the computer reading about all-things-raw. i don't plan on ever having a third year of college, but who knows... anyone guess the source of the title of this post, "temporary like jenny craig"? no? well, to those who regard _blonde_on_blonde_ as the best rock'n'roll album of all time, they'd know i'd lifted the title from the rollicking track off that album, "temporary like achilles". how about a brief excerpt from that song? (last dylan quote... i promise!) ~~~ Achilles is in your alleyway, He don't want me here, He does brag. He's pointing to the sky And he's hungry, like a man in drag. How come you get someone like him to be your guard? You know I want your lovin', Honey, but you're so hard. ~~~ i haven't read the <raw> list for some time. if i get the spare time i'll try to plow through the archives, but honestly, i'd rather review the paleodiet & paleofood archives first. plenty to read, no doubt about it. m2m back issues up the kazoo. sadly, i won't have a regular _health_&_beyond_ to occupy my attention at the beginning of each month any more (as many of you surely know, chet will put out a few more sporadic issues before closing up shop. he's off to spread the hallelujah diet with george malkmus. i wish him all the best in his new venture, but will miss his quality publication. hope chet sees the "reasons god didn't get his ph.d". thanks peter! good luck finding a replacement, though i wouldn't mind if you kept on keeping on as our beloved moderator. some may tear you down, but i belove you. ;-) i've got more responses to old posts, but they'll have to wait a bit longer. i need to help my step-dad finish the ceiling of the hut we built next to our new hot tub. no chlorine, ozonated, with occasional bromine (i protest the last item, but we may get an "ionic silver" system that will let us circumvent the bromine.) i've gotten my hands into the mud this past month more than any year before, double-digging the garden with a little help from mom. we've planted tomatoes (early & late, beefsteak & brandywine), tomatillos, beets, spinach, parsley, cilantro, basil, carrots, corn, jalapenos, thai hot chile, ring-o-fire cayenne, & plan on adding melons & more very soon. my plan for those who care: leave santa cruz june 10th for vancouver, canada. return to santa cruz september 10th, if i don't get drawn back here beforehands (maybe to go to helen jean story's natural hygiene summer camp? who else might go?). and i may decide to head off the mainland and touch down in hawaii or france or south-east asia or... probably back here to the 'cruz. may work for a health food store, juice bar, or metaphysical bookstore (or all three! part-time.) i may also attempt to become a cmt (certified massage therapist) licensed with enough hours to work in california or hawaii or wherever. bill mollison's permaculture design course deeply tempts me, as well. a fellow young raw-foodist took a design course last year (not from bill) and he couldn't say enough good things about the experience. he borrowed my copy of _permaculture:_a_designer's_manual_ by bill mollison for his course. i dream of visits to arcosanti, hopi land, tree of life in patagonia, & brotherhood of life in albuquerque, nm. the last one publishes robert e. svoboda's intensely intriguing books, which i heard about through tom billings. i've read svoboda's _aghora_1_ & i've started on _aghora_2:_kundalini_. mind-blowing. eerie similarities to my father's chosen religion of tantric tibetan buddhism. aghora comes from a tantric hindu perspective, though of the left-hand, not the usually-encountered right-hand. _prakruti_ (your ayurvedic constitution) by svoboda has impressed me as the best work on ayurveda to grace my bookshelf. _tao_&_dharma_ by svoboda (& another guy from victoria, bc) compares the world's two oldest health care systems, ayuveda & chinese medicine. again, i rate it essential reading. for those who didn't hear tom's shpiel, robert svoboda has distinguished himself as the only westerner to ever win a degree in ayurveda from a traditional university in india, & thus become a licenced ayurvedic physician. dr. vasant lad (co-author of _the_yoga_of_herbs_ & others), a teacher of svoboda in india, proclaims him an incomparable source for western readers interested in the science of health (ayur+veda). in fact, lad says svoboda graduated #1 in his class, doubly amazing due to his status as a westerner. he has read the ancient ayurvedic texts in sanskrit & translation, & passes on a few of the best tools he's found for us modern folk to live healthily. endorsement over. mmm-mmmm! sweet plums! the fresh local salmon has bowled me over with ecstasy after 45 minutes or overnight on the food dehydrator (set to the lowest temp. [below 95 fahrenheit]). i'd like to order me up one of those hanging mesh dehydrators from "perfect health" or "lehman's" (i've seen 'em in both catalogs, alternately as a "food safe" or "food pantry"). my polarica catalog has some interesting items, but i've yet to experiment. we need an orkos-u.s.a.! (orkos-turtle-island) i will check in randomly over the summer, when i come into town from the woods (commune livin'! nothing like it!). can't promise i'll catch up before my return south, but i can try! keep the home flames burning! (figuratively, of course.) finally, welcome to all the frogs! i loved france in my one trip there in third grade (mom wouldn't let me stay in paris despite many pleas). arles, nice, marseilles... i want to visit again! or live there! i'll have to renew my canadian passport. (i'd never want an american passport, though my dual-citizenship gives me the choice. canadians have a much better world-reputation than americans, n'est pas?). and howdy to bob wynman & ellie rotunno, two dynamic instinctos i've grown to know & love from their m2m writings. looks like bo7b's still getting the hang of this net thang, since it seems to me he posted to the list a message from ellie he tried to forward to claire. well, i'll pull my nose out of this one & let them hash it out & make up on their own. i feel for you, ellie! (psst. i won't tell the journal that publishes your toxic mind theory if you won't. heck, i won't tell them even if you do, and i think many on this list will also try to keep this incident low-profile. 'nuff said.) i write this from my ma's 'puter, hoping i've set up the preferences correctly so that it appears ombodhi@cats has sent this (otherwise bolis.com will reject a post from an unsubscribed person). after the first i'll plug my 'puter back into the newly-finished hut & see what personal mail i've got. 'till then, see ya in the archives! bob-conscious, bodhi