Eat less, exercise more.
April 16th 2008 10:26
Eat less, exercise more. Oh, and breathe.
These are basically the only three ways to lose weight. But the first requires discipline, (put that chocolate away now and don’t think of having another bite); the second means you have to stop sitting here blogging; and third? Well, the third is pretty easy – except that the best books talk about really breathing, deeply, madly, passionately. As though you’re life depended on it.
I just came across a site called GodWeb, which, apart from pretty much covering the field in terms of what it can talk about, has a page discussing various Christian diet books and the whole marketing hoopla that goes with them. Weight loss isn’t just good for your health, it’s good for your spiritual health as well. You can be a better Christian if you lose weight. Which of course is plainly nonsense.
Eating less might help you in terms of being less greedy; exercising more might get you out and about and give you time to think and reflect and actually, maybe, even hear God’s voice (as long as you haven’t got something plugged in your earholes). And breathing helps – people who breathe are usually still alive, and while you’re alive there’s still hope for you.
The page I mentioned is written by one Charles Henderson, a Presbyterian minister and the author of God and Science, a book that’s now (partly) available online in a hypertext version. (It was published in 1986 originally.)
He’s also the executive director of Crosscurrents, a magazine available in various formats including an online version. It focuses mostly on the same two topics as Henderson’s book, though the magazine, of course, is written by a wide range of authors, including Jewish ones.
These are basically the only three ways to lose weight. But the first requires discipline, (put that chocolate away now and don’t think of having another bite); the second means you have to stop sitting here blogging; and third? Well, the third is pretty easy – except that the best books talk about really breathing, deeply, madly, passionately. As though you’re life depended on it.
I just came across a site called GodWeb, which, apart from pretty much covering the field in terms of what it can talk about, has a page discussing various Christian diet books and the whole marketing hoopla that goes with them. Weight loss isn’t just good for your health, it’s good for your spiritual health as well. You can be a better Christian if you lose weight. Which of course is plainly nonsense.
Eating less might help you in terms of being less greedy; exercising more might get you out and about and give you time to think and reflect and actually, maybe, even hear God’s voice (as long as you haven’t got something plugged in your earholes). And breathing helps – people who breathe are usually still alive, and while you’re alive there’s still hope for you.
Charles Henderson
He’s also the executive director of Crosscurrents, a magazine available in various formats including an online version. It focuses mostly on the same two topics as Henderson’s book, though the magazine, of course, is written by a wide range of authors, including Jewish ones.
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