precise, appeared until the recent crisis - to many Americans from the East of America's America, as the whole of America seemed to Europeans of a century ago: extreme and strange, full of violent contrasts, contradictory, over-advanced, neo primitive and savage, a land where everything is possible, the hippies and the religious-political fundamentalism of the Orange County, Marcuse, Angela Davis and Norman Brown, Esalen, the new consciousness. Alan Watts and Carlos Castaneda, as well as Patricia Hearst and the Sym bionese Liberation Army, Richard Nixon and his men, the Satan religion,...

Weight loss seems to have become more difficult as time goes by. There was a time, in the early 50's when obesity was not an issue, when no one had to worry about health related issues due to their weight and few if any people actually dieted. Today, it seems as if everyone we come into contact with is on some type of diet, one that promises dramatic weight loss with virtually no work and yet, we are all still fat. The dieting industry has become very rich off of promises that fail to come true, and they have also left many people feeling hopeless. However, there is hope and throughout this...

Losing weight is something many of us try at some stage of our lives. It can be for a wedding, or a special holiday, perhaps you can't get into your favourite jeans any more or you just don't like what you're seeing in the mirror every morning. Many turn to exercise as a solution, some resort to extreme measures, such as surgery, but even more people realise that the key to weight loss is what you consume on a daily basis. And a vegetarian diet is one of the things you can do which will see the pounds falling off in no time. With an overview of weight loss in general you will quickly get a...