Expert: Spirituality the answer to emotional eating

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Recently, after undergoing extensive medical testing, my doctor diagnosed me with celiac disease and autoimmune malabsorption.

This means my body rejects gluten and cannot naturally absorb essential vitamins such as B12.

It also means I am not supposed to eat traditional glazed doughnuts, pan pizza or crescent rolls ever again.

This makes me sad. It also makes me think. Before I stopped eating gluten four months ago, I vomited back much of what I ate. My muscles were weak. My head throbbed. Frightened, I went to doctors seeking answers. I prayed for healing.

Today, at the start of 2015, I better understand the problem and what I need to do to improve my health. In many ways, I already feel better. Unlike many of the diseases doctors tested me for, celiac is non-progressive when treated.

So why am I moping around mourning Belgian waffles?

Last weekend, Tricia Nelson, director of Roy Nelson Healing and an emotional eating expert, spoke at the Mindshare Summit in Tampa.

According to Nelson, people often use food to fill a spiritual hole.

I interviewed her about why people form attachments to food and how faith can make diet changes easier.

What do you view as the connection between healthy eating and spirituality?

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Lifelong Learning explores another facet of spirituality

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With an ongoing theme of spirituality, the Explore Lifelong Learning Group explored a third form of connected body and spirit.

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Bishop Michael Hawkins speaks to the Explore Lifelong Learning group on Tuesday about Christian Anthropology.

Bishop Michael Hawkins, the 12th bishop of the Diocese of Saskatchewan, spoke to the group about Christian Anthropology during their gathering at the John M. Cuelenaere Library during the Tuesday lunch hour.

I was invited and honoured to be invited because these are people who are keen on learning, Hawkins said. It is a little intimidating -- I saw they had some excellent presentations so far on Indigenous spirituality and meditation and the next one is on Buddhism, so it is an honour to be invited and to think with people. I hope I dont lecture, but we think and talk together.

He was asked to speak about spirituality from a Christian point of view, so he chose to approach from Christian anthropology.

That is, is there a distinct Christian understanding of who we are as human beings and talk about that in relation to our spirituality? he explained. It is just who do we understand we all are fundamentally as human beings -- where we come from, who we are now and what our destiny is.

Since Christian spirituality is an enormous topic, he decided to just take one edge of it.

What I hope to do is look at the relationship between Christian theology -- what we think about God, Jesus and ourselves and what that says about theology and also, finally, we are going to look at what is called the theology of desire as a kind of meeting point, he said. We all have desires and to think about what they mean in terms of our spirituality, the fulfilment or non-fulfilment of those desires.

Some of the topics he used to demonstrate Christian spirituality were the Sermon on the Mount, which discusses spirituality versus morality, the three Christian teachings around the trinity, incarnation and atonement, which looks at answers to who are God, Jesus and people, and the story of Gilgamesh, a pre-Christian work about human destiny and human desire and whether or not desire is fulfiled or will be unfulfiled forever.

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A new year, new spiritual you

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Each day, the world is changing, creating a new world of its own, but this shift in time was not an end to humanity as we thought it might be, instead it was a shift in consciousness. Some call this period in time The Age of Spiritual Enlightenment. As we now reach 2015, this change will be extremely paramount to our existence on Earth and our evolution as a species. Involvement in this human ascendance not only provides personal reward, but also personal advantage.

Though the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason we learn about in most of our textbooks refers to the mid-18th century, it was also an age of Scientific Revolution when Western Europe emphasized reason and facts, rather than traditional establishments. This period was very important and involved the acceptance of different religions, philosophy and scientific research. Todays period of Enlightenment is far less materialistic and interpersonal, and far more individualistic and introspective. One might start to comprehend this new way of learning by first understanding the 18th century enlightenment, and then apply that philosophy to our new philosophy, parallel to what is going on globally today.

Spirituality is the process of transforming the self, increasingly oriented on subjective experience and personal growth, independent from any specific religious or cultural context. The great thing about spirituality is that it is foreveryone, no matter what background you come from or what religion you belong to. It can begin from something as simple as this years new-year resolution to something as complex as helping the poor. Be the change you wish to see in the world Gandhi stated over one-hundred years ago. The ideas of self-improvement and conscious shift are nothing new to us, but the act of actually beginning to do so in mass quantities yields improvement.

If you are new to spirituality, I can give you some suggestions to point you in the right direction. When you conquer your inner-issues, you can begin to take on the world. I recommend research and communication with those who inspire you and surrounding yourself with individuals who push you to do your best, rather than bringing you down to your lowest. I also recommend eating healthy so that your body can function according to your minds needs. Sometimes letting go of the negative aspects of our lives is the hardest thing to do, but this action will grant you wishes far more valuable than gold itself: the gift of peace and harmony, and the ability to spread these gifts with the rest of the world.

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NOAA's DSCOVR NISTAR instrument watches Earth's 'budget'

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The NISTAR instrument that will fly aboard NOAA's space weather-observing spacecraft called the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), is going to measure the Earth's radiation budget.

NASA is flying two Earth science instruments aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft. One of them is called the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer or NISTAR. Basically, NISTAR measures the absolute irradiance over a broad spectrum of the entire sunlit face of Earth. That will tell the instrument Earth's radiation budget, i.e. if the Earth's atmosphere is retaining more or less solar energy than it radiates back to space.

If Earth is keeping in more solar energy than it expels, then the Earth will warm. If the Earth and the Earth-system radiates more energy to space than it receives from the sun, the Earth will cool. Absorbed sunlight raises the Earth's temperature. Emitted radiation or heat lowers the temperature. When absorbed sunlight and emitted heat balance each other, the Earth's temperature doesn't change - the radiation budget is in balance.

NISTAR is an active cavity radiometer designed to measure the energy reflected and emitted from the entire sunlit face of the Earth from its orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1). L1 is a neutral gravity point between Earth and the sun. This position offers a unique continuous view of the Earth at noon.

This measurement will improve our understanding of the effects of changes to Earth's reflected and emitted radiation (radiance) caused by human activities and natural phenomena. This information can be used for climate science applications.

The term Active Cavity Radiometer (ACR) was assigned by its inventor, Dr. Richard C. Willson of Columbia University, and earlier generations of the ACR were flown on the Solar Max and ACRIM (Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor) missions. "NISTAR is unique in that instead of measuring the sun's radiation and variability, it is measuring the Earth's,"said Mark LaPole, Director of Space Products, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado. "The accuracy requirements were developed by the NISTAR Principal Investigators, Dr. Steven R. Lorentz and Dr. Joseph P. Rice of NIST."

NISTAR was designed and built between 1999 and 2001 by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who developed the Scripps-NIST advanced radiometer, or Scripps NISTAR instrument.

"NISTAR uses active cavity radiometers, that absorb all of the incident radiation in internal cavities and monitors the heater currents necessary to maintain the cavity at a constant measured temperature, thus determining the incident energy," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR Project Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Recent ground recalibration of this instrument indicate that better than the required 1% absolute accuracy will be achieved."

"NIST will be able to separate the Earth radiant power from reflected solar energy by making measurements in three overlapping wavelength bands. This will be an important contribution to the Earth climate debate," Szabo said.

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Coca-Colanisation is coming to Britain

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The corporation doesnt need slogans or the jingly tunes it once employed to get into our heads. We know what the red on the wheel [of the London Eye] represents.' Photograph: Dan Chung

In the heart of a Mexican traditional covered market, where chilli peppers sell in every conceivable size and colour amid a fabulous variety of fruits and vegetables, I was stunned to come across avenues of tables and chairs that all looked exactly the same. These were dozens of small restaurants but, like the painted roses in Alice in Wonderland, they were uniformly decorated and equipped. Everything was bright red. The colour of Coca-Cola.

Cokes sponsorship paid for the menus offering meal deals including everybodys favourite fizzy pop, the fridges sporting logos and the T-shirts and red Coca-Cola aprons of every waiter behind every counter. But to say the soft drinks brand had a marketing monopoly would be to understate what was going on here. Few people object to this Coca-Colanisation. The soft drink has cult status in Mexico. There is even a church that was said to use it instead of wine for communion.

Mexico has one of the highest levels of child obesity in the world. Sugary drinks, foremost of which in popularity is Coke, have a lot to do with that, according to the Mexican obesity experts I interviewed. So when the London Eye, the most famous big wheel in the UK, announced it would turn red courtesy of Coca-Cola, I found it hard to repress a shudder.

Its the normalisation of Coca-Cola that worries me its insinuation into our lives. In London its hard to get away from the Eye. You glimpse it unexpectedly all the time. The corporation doesnt need slogans or the jingly tunes it once employed to get into our heads. We know what the red on the wheel represents. And it is red, of course the full sugar colour. Not the green of the lower sugar brand, nor the black of Coke Zero.

We may be more sceptical of it than those in remote parts of Mexico where people were grateful for the delivery van because they had no safe drinking water. But it is part of our culture too, as the company points out on its website. It arrived in London in 1900 when Charles Candler, son of the founder, brought over a jug of syrup from the US. In 1969, Coca-Cola teamed up with Biba for a TV ad featuring Carnaby Street and a recording of Things Go Better with Coke by The Who. And in 2012, there was the sponsorship of the Olympics by both Coca-Cola and McDonalds.

Marketing and advertising have become much subtler, particularly in the hands of vast corporations with huge profits and products that are under attack from health lobbies. Jingles have given way to associations, to dreams and nostalgia. And the format has changed. Online advertising outdid TV ads in 2009. Social media is a gift. Young people can be invited to join in with cool groups of online friends who have the good taste to like certain drinks, snacks or on the case of children sweets. The Yale Rudd Center for food policy and obesity in the US reported that 6 billion fast-food ads appeared on Facebook in 2012, which amounted to 19% of all fast-food advertising. The World Health Organisation in a report on Europe warned of advergames - game playing and fantasy video sites launched online by snack and sweet companies.

So no we dont worship Coca-Cola in Britain or see its presence on our dinner table as a status symbol. But do we really want our children to see and one day nostalgically remember the magnificent spectacle of the Eye on the London skyline bathed for years to come in Coca-Cola red? At least we can turn off the TV.

Sarah Boseley is the author of The Shape Were in: how junk food and diets and shortening our lives, published by Guardian Faber.

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The corporation doesnt need slogans or the jingly tunes it once employed to get into our heads. We know what the red on the wheel [of the London Eye] represents.' Photograph: Dan Chung

In the heart of a Mexican traditional covered market, where chilli peppers sell in every conceivable size and colour amid a fabulous variety of fruits and vegetables, I was stunned to come across avenues of tables and chairs that all looked exactly the same. These were dozens of small restaurants but, like the painted roses in Alice in Wonderland, they were uniformly decorated and equipped. Everything was bright red. The colour of Coca-Cola.

Cokes sponsorship paid for the menus offering meal deals including everybodys favourite fizzy pop, the fridges sporting logos and the T-shirts and red Coca-Cola aprons of every waiter behind every counter. But to say the soft drinks brand had a marketing monopoly would be to understate what was going on here. Few people object to this Coca-Colanisation. The soft drink has cult status in Mexico. There is even a church that was said to use it instead of wine for communion.

Mexico has one of the highest levels of child obesity in the world. Sugary drinks, foremost of which in popularity is Coke, have a lot to do with that, according to the Mexican obesity experts I interviewed. So when the London Eye, the most famous big wheel in the UK, announced it would turn red courtesy of Coca-Cola, I found it hard to repress a shudder.

Its the normalisation of Coca-Cola that worries me its insinuation into our lives. In London its hard to get away from the Eye. You glimpse it unexpectedly all the time. The corporation doesnt need slogans or the jingly tunes it once employed to get into our heads. We know what the red on the wheel represents. And it is red, of course the full sugar colour. Not the green of the lower sugar brand, nor the black of Coke Zero.

We may be more sceptical of it than those in remote parts of Mexico where people were grateful for the delivery van because they had no safe drinking water. But it is part of our culture too, as the company points out on its website. It arrived in London in 1900 when Charles Candler, son of the founder, brought over a jug of syrup from the US. In 1969, Coca-Cola teamed up with Biba for a TV ad featuring Carnaby Street and a recording of Things Go Better with Coke by The Who. And in 2012, there was the sponsorship of the Olympics by both Coca-Cola and McDonalds.

Marketing and advertising have become much subtler, particularly in the hands of vast corporations with huge profits and products that are under attack from health lobbies. Jingles have given way to associations, to dreams and nostalgia. And the format has changed. Online advertising outdid TV ads in 2009. Social media is a gift. Young people can be invited to join in with cool groups of online friends who have the good taste to like certain drinks, snacks or on the case of children sweets. The Yale Rudd Center for food policy and obesity in the US reported that 6 billion fast-food ads appeared on Facebook in 2012, which amounted to 19% of all fast-food advertising. The World Health Organisation in a report on Europe warned of advergames - game playing and fantasy video sites launched online by snack and sweet companies.

So no we dont worship Coca-Cola in Britain or see its presence on our dinner table as a status symbol. But do we really want our children to see and one day nostalgically remember the magnificent spectacle of the Eye on the London skyline bathed for years to come in Coca-Cola red? At least we can turn off the TV.

Sarah Boseley is the author of The Shape Were in: how junk food and diets and shortening our lives, published by Guardian Faber.

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