Hi Irene, Liza: > Eating food is just the fuel to > >allow us to do these other things, which are what life is really about. Irene: > That's **life**. Keeping it going requires food, air, and water. > **Living** requires the other stuff! Oh - okay. Well, if you're making that distinction, I guess I agree with you. I still don't think,though, that it's a good idea to spend to much attention on thinking about food. Some attention is good (especially if you've paid NO attention in the past - just mindlessly stuffed any junk down the hatch while rushing here and there - that kind of way), but I think lots of people are preoccupied with food because of all the emphasis put on it from advertising, the diet industry, appearance craziness (especially for us gals), strange claims by Prevention magazine mailing circulars and the like about miraculous powers of certain foods ("see page 56 for more") etc., all the food *addictions* that are "foisted" upon us or that we discover on our own (ugh), etc etc etc. and of course eating disorders of all kinds. That's kind of why I harp on the not-paying-too-much-attention-to-food thing. But I hear what you're saying, too. Love, Liza [log in to unmask] (Liza May) ps on another note: Sir Robert Hutchinson: "Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." Hmmmm. Seems this problem has been around for a while, huh?