Introduction
Part I. Energetics
1 Quality and Quantity: Beyond the Realm of the Senses
2 The Decline and Fall of Energetics
3 Enter the Age of Sanity
4 Your Most Intimate Relationship
Part II. Choosing Your Food
5 The Essence of Choosing
6 Habit: Appetite’s Nemesis
7 Choosing with Your Senses
8 Circumstantial Choosing
9 Choosing with Your Personality
10 Choosing from Reaction
11 Choosing from the Bigger Picture
12 Big Picture or Big Brother?
13 More “Choosing Under the Influence”: Concepts, Advice, and
Dietary Trends
14 Five Familiar Faces
Part III. Working Models
15 Character Study
16 Food’s Essential Character
17 Food’s Temperament
18 A Basic Food Character Chart
19 Shaping Characters
20 Preparations
Part IV. The Cast of Characters
21 A Symphony of Flora and Fauna
22 A Matter of Meat
23 A Chicken in Every Pot
24 Birds of Another Feather
25 Living on the Egg
26 Mammals
27 Creatures of the Deep
28 Dairy Foods
29 The Animated Life of Plants
30 Some Unusual Characters
31 The Staff of Life: Cereal Grains
32 Beans/Legumes
33 Nuts and Seeds
34 Fruits
35 Condiments and Seasonings
36 Algae
Part V. A Forbidden History of Food and Agriculture
37 The Origins of Agriculture
38 The Prehistory and Reemergence of Agriculture: Reconsidering
Human Origins
39 Traditional Ancestral Diets
40 Cacao: The Essence of Chocolate
41 The Gift of Grain and Flowering Plants
42 Dangerous Brains: The “Lo-Carb” Fad and Diet Extremism in the
Twenty-first Century
Part VI. A Call to Common Sense
43 The Golden Spiral of Traditional Foods
44 Choosing a Healthy Diet
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Steve Gagne is a natural health and nutrition counsellor who began researching and teaching food energetics in 1972. He teaches throughout the United States and Europe and continues to study traditional cultures and their dietary practices in remote parts of the world.
“Food Energetics is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand, and
absolutely essential explanation of the spiritual dimensions of
food. If you believe in the concept of living things having a soul,
this book describes the soul qualities in all of our foods. Here is
the ultimate explanation of the term soul food.”
*Russell Mariani, author of Healing Digestive Illness*
“Nobody understands the power, magic, and impact of food better
than Steve Gagné. Prepare to read, eat, and be transformed!”
*John David Mann, coauthor of The Go-Giver:A Little Story About a
Powerful Business Idea*
“This book is exceptional in the field of diet today. Steve Gagné’s
deep, informed perspective helps elucidate the thoughts of Michael
Pollan and gives us access to a simple, user-friendly way of
understanding food.”
*Joshua Rosenthal, author of Integrative Nutrition*
“One of the most important insights for anyone who has personally
experienced the diet/disease, diet/symptom connection is the
awareness of inevitable food diet dogma--meaning, the initial
tendency for any student of natural health to create fairly
hardedged principles around what is Right Food and Wrong Food and
believe them as incontrovertibly true for the rest of their life
and for all of humanity. Generally at that moment, a student of
natural health will join one of the groups that best fit those
beliefs, be it the All Raw group, or Vegetarianism, or
Macrobiotic/Vegan/ Natural Hygiene/Paleolithic or any other of the
well-known food philosophies. Gagné gently helps dislodge this
dogma and gets us to see a wider view of what food is, what it
isn’t, and how it has been used by healthy cultures throughout the
world to heal and stay healthy. Whether you are just waking up to
the realization that most of your symptoms are diet related or are
an old salt in the study of the food and health connection, Food
Energetics is simply a must-have book.”
*Scott Ohlgren, author of The 28-Day Cleansing Program*
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