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Recieved: 2001/11/06 09:30
Subject: [K-list] food, masculinity and spirituality
From: Stephen Kowalchuk

Folks,

Please....let's not have a pissing contest over whose diets are best. As
individuals we all can tune into what is best for us to eat. For some, that
means grains; for others, it's fruit and veggies; for others, it's meat.

Anyone who attempts to suggest that all people should unilaterally eat a certain
diet is ignoring the massive evidence that suggests otherwise. People from
Barry Sears to Robert Atkins to Andrew Weil state emphatically that diets are
individual, and that people still need to eat a variety of foods to be healthy.
Vegetarians still need proteins, trace minerals and other substances that are
only found in meats, and people who are vegan often need to supplement. Again,
nothing is absolute. People adapt.

As for food and spirituality, I believe some foods can make a person less
occupied with the physical act of assimilating food and thus more able to focus
their attention on other things. And foods affect mood and perception and
attention and a range of other psychosomatic factors. This is not spiritual,
folks, it's biochemical. Eating a big pile of brown rice with every meal does
not make me any more spiritual than eating a 12-oz steak.

I know that for my body, foods that are grown organically feel better than foods
that are full of pesticides and similar stuff. Spring water feels better than
city water. Some of that is perception, and some is biochemistry. But
perceptions influence our bodily processes, and our worldview influences our
health. So again I say, it's individual.

As for men being less spiritual than women or having less spiritual energy than
women...what makes one spiritual in nature? Perhaps there is the ring of truth
in the statement that stereotypically men are less in touch with their energies
and more in touch with the physical, "concrete" world. I know women who are ice
queens and men who are sissies. And how does this matter one bit about how
spiritual they are?

I find my balance of masculine and feminine energies to be comfortable. I can
be sexually masculine or feminine as my needs dictate. Being labeled
spiritually inferior because of my gender arises the same protest that exists
for people saying that because I am caucasian I am inferior. Or because I am a
cancer survivor and I have a few organs missing I am inferior.

And I would thank the people who would suggest because I am a caucasian male
cancer survivor who eats a mostly vegetarian diet that I am inferior to kindly
shut the fuck up. I would like to see a little less ego broadcasting and a
little more spirit.

Warmly,

Steve

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