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Challenges, even in broken relationships, force us to reevaluate and grow, so the areas where we are most significantly challenged (for many of us, our careers) are where we grow first into Level 4
The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
The critical issue, then, for both the religious and the spiritual alike, is this:
Can your enchantment judge, criticize, and unsettle you?
Can your enchantment point out your selfishness and self-indulgence?
Can your enchantment, be it burning sage for your spell or singing “God Bless America” in your pew, hold a mirror up to your hypocrisy?
Can your enchantment weigh your nation or political party on the scales and find it wanting?
Does your enchantment create sacrificial obligations and duties in your life that you cannot avoid or ignore?
Does your enchantment call you to extend grace to people you’d prefer to hate?
Does your enchantment bust up your cozy self-satisfaction and dogmatic self-righteousness?
Hunting Magic Eels
Richard Beck
One of the best studies was done by Kimberly Stanhope and Peter Havel from the University of California, Davis. They took overweight men and women and provided meals in which 25 per cent of the calories were from glucose or 25 percent from fructose. Individuals took these meals for 10 weeks. Fat accumulation was measured at the beginning and end of the study using special X-rays (computerized tomography or CT scanning). In those individuals that ate a fructose-enriched diet, there was a significant increase in visceral fat compared to those given a glucose-based diet.115 The fructose fed individuals also developed worse insulin resistance and higher serum triglycerides following their meals.
The Fat Switch
Richard J. Johnson
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