Re: I'm curious - what books etc have you read?

Hi estugrrl,

It's refreshing to read your messages. It's taken me 50 years of eating poorly and a year and a half of fasting and eating healthily, and a lot of reading to tear me away from my old beliefs that it's OK to eat / drink anything until we get sick and die and live till 100 if we are very lucky.

However when I read your posts, I find my self saying yes I agree with that, wow, yes, and I am learning from them.

You seem to have a good understanding of many things, and can express it well in posts. So, I wondered what books you have read.

I first started reading this forum, then bits of Shelton, Bragg. Then earlier this year some web searching, and then Dr Fuhrman's stuff including his fasting book, and "Eat for Health" and eat to Live", also Colin Campbell "The China Study", Goldhamer "The Pleasure Trap", then I widened the field to look at how we live in the world and our relationship with the planet. I currently tend to think we should all reconnect with the planet and grow our own food, and not depend on supermarkets to feed us tomatoes artificially ripened with ethylene gas produced from petrochemicals. Lately I have been looking at things like "A Delicate Balance - The Truth" (I have book and video) and I saw "Age of Stupid" at the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.

I found that much of my learning process was actually undoing incorrect preconceptions that I have held all my life, but I also see this process as being truly liberating, because it means that I have broken from some of the chains of thought that once restrained me, so if I can do this, anyone can. Having said that, I still have a long way to go, but I am enjoying the journey.

I guess also that my first fast was the catalyst that changed things, though I don't plan to fast for some time now. I also think that my thinking is better now than it could have been when I weighted 260 pounds, and that journey took time (you can't lose it overnight). Therefore I probably won't be firing on all fours until I do reach my optimum fitness, at which time I will probably have a different perspective on things.

I wish you well on your fast

Steve