Here’s a meal that positively glows with health: fish, natto, lettuce-tomato-and-carrot salad, milk, and for dessert a big round shiny red apple. So bright with nutritional promise! So empty in fact, says Josei Seven (May 9-16). The nutritional equivalent of dust and ashes. Yesterday’s health food is health food no…
Josei Seven (Oct 13) poses a beguiling question. Imagine a luxury hotel – gourmet dining, king-size bed, cocktail lounge, swimming pool, servants anticipating your every need, desire, caprice – free. No charge. No strings. Well, one: you can’t leave. Would you check in? No way, says “old lady journalist” (as…
Walking, all serious walkers know, is more than mere locomotion. Health to some, satori to others, it seems to prove all the hoary old adages about happiness being within easy reach if only we knew it. It is sublime in its simplicity. It needs no money, no equipment, no planning,…