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...tendency for even modest weight gains to trigger diabetes is most likely the genetic legacy from ancestors who had to cope with cruel cycles of feast and famine. Under such conditions, survival favored those genetically blessed with a highly efficient ability to squirrel away calories during times of plenty by breaking food down into glucose, then storing it as fat. Now surrounded by a constant source of food and living a less active lifestyle, people born with that genetic pedigree are perfectly primed for diabetes. "It's not simply that Western food is causing diabetes but that different body types...
...herself describes the retreat as "a health boot camp." "The most effective kick start comes from a combination of diet and exercise," she explains. She runs her camp for 12 weeks a year in the Spanish hilltop village of Gauc?n in Andalucia. But it's a movable raw-food feast, with two additional weeks planned in Cornwall, England, this year, and in 2007, for the first time, a long-haul retreat on St. Barts in the French West Indies. Accommodation in all locations is plush, and no more than 10 participants are accepted at one time...
...retreat as "a health boot camp." "The most effective kick start comes from a combination of diet and exercise," she explains. She runs her camp for 12 weeks a year in the Spanish hilltop village of Gaucín in Andalucia. But it's a movable raw-food feast, with two additional weeks planned in Cornwall, England, this year, and in 2007, for the first time, a long-haul retreat [an error occurred while processing this directive]on St. Barts in the French West Indies. Accommodation in all locations is plush, and no more than 10 participants are accepted...
...early on a sunny morning in southern Mexico that my family gathered in an outdoor kitchen, ready to convert a mountain of ingredients into a four-course feast. Sun-dried chili peppers, fresh nuts, chunk chocolate and a score of other ingredients were waiting to be blended into a spicy mole sauce. Crisp jicamas had been set aside for salad. The buds of Castilian roses would be transformed into ice cream. It was an ambitious menu--especially since none of us had any idea how to make those dishes. But that was the point. We had enrolled in a daylong...
...with a curveball of grave proportions. My grandmother was diagnosed with two forms of cancer. Since then, she has endured multiple surgeries and a brutal round of chemotherapy, all with a brave face and immeasurable dignity. She arranged her treatment schedule to be able to prepare our annual Thanksgiving feast and attend my little sister’s Bat Mitzvah. Although she has been sapped of her strength, she has not been robbed of her customary biting wit. I’ve heard her continue to tease my grandfather, as is her wont, but haven’t yet heard...