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Travel & Lifestyle
The Book List
Zara Adcock—founder of Bookommended—suggests four titles
about health and wellness for Wanderlust’s Health & Wellness issue.
These books will leave you feeling enlightened in mind and body.
Alexandra Hemingsley is neither a professional athlete
nor a fitness expert. She’s just a girl who in her 30s decided
to start running. But even though the only thing fast about
her first run was how swiftly it became a disillusioned walk,
the allure of running never left her. So when her brother
announced he was entering a marathon, Alexandra decided to join him. With the support of her family and months
of training, Hemingsley re-learnt what had come naturally
as a child—the ability to run. She didn’t stop after that race
either, continuing to make the sport integral to her life.
This personal, funny, and emotional memoir takes
a new look at running and why we do it. Without sugarcoating the triumphs and challenges, exhilaration
and pain, or pros and cons of running, Hemingsley reveals
her own discovery of how it has enhanced her life, concluding that, above all, she runs for the sheer joy of it.
Windmill Books, 2013, paperback, 240 pages,
Bookommended Price: 450 THB*
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NUTRITION: FOOD,
HEALTH AND SPIRITUAL
DEVELOPMENT
BY RUDOLF STEINER, COMPILED BY CHRISTIAN VON ARMIN
With an introduction, commentary, and notes by Christian Von Armin, this slim book gathers the unique writings
on nutrition by Austrian scientist, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).
Steiner—who is widely known for his spiritual ‘anthroposophy’ and for founding biodynamic farming—approaches
the topic of nutrition from his unusual perspective as someone
whose work is born out of the knowledge that natural science
and spirituality exist in conjunction with one another.
Steiner’s respect for the reader is evident in every carefully
chosen word and reflects his belief that “the job of a scientist is to explain how things act and what effect they have,”
leaving what his reader ultimately does with that information
up to him or herself. In this gentle way, he explains how both
our physical health and spiritual development are impacted
by: raw food, vegetarian and meat diets; protein, fats, carbohydrates and salts; nicotine and alcohol; and individual foodstuffs. His refreshing insights are invaluable to anyone wanting
to further their und