Food For Thought

In recent years, as a people we have become more nutrition-conscious than ever before. We have awakened to the fact that we are what we eat. The signs of this renewed interest in eating the right foods are all around us. Health food stores have sprung up everywhere. Food processing companies are being forced to be more truthful in their advertising and their labeling. Books on nutrition are being sold in ever larger numbers. Many of us are taking courses in nutrition. Not only eating the right food but also eating the right amount of food has become a number one topic of conversation. Dieting has replaced the weather as the thing we talk most about. Everywhere we go we encounter someone who is either on a diet or going on a diet, “tomorrow at the latest.” A follower of Norman Vincent Peale has written a book on how you can pray away those excess pounds. This led someone to suggest that the book be…