When it comes to weight loss, the emphasis today is shifting away from fad diets
and compulsive workouts toward sane, sensible techniques that incorporate both
the mind and the body. This is the first book to apply the 2,500-year-old
principles of Zen Buddhism to the modem struggle with the vicious cycle of
dieting, losing, and regaining weight.From a Buddhist perspective, overeating is
a disorder of desire. This book will teach readers how to find freedom from
eating problems and the tyranny of desire that triggers them. Filled with
concrete, practical exercises and the wisdom of the ages, The Zen of Eating
provides, at last, an alternative to