Main description:

Food quality is an important issue for our modern world. There is an increasing awareness that empty calories and mass-produced food don't offer the quality nutrition that people need, and that smaller amounts of better-quality food could help combat the epidemic of obesity sweeping the western world.

Karl Koenig recognised the significance of human nutrition nearly one hundred years ago. In the 1920s he started lecturing on the subject as part of a programme of social help in deprived city areas, and in 1936 gave a course for physicians and educators.

This book contains two essays and sixteen lectures ranging from the significance of nutrition in early childhood and during illness, and descriptions of the digestive process and the inner organs from a spiritual point of view, to his ideas about the future development of nourishment. Koenig's work is introduced by three contemporary researchers into nutritional practice, and finishes with Koenig's appreciation of the only mealtime grace given by Rudolf Steiner.

Contents:

Nutrition and Healing by Erdmut Schadel
Anthroposophical Research into Nutrition by Petra Kuhne
Nutrition from Cosmos and Earth: a Contemporary Question by Anita Pedersen
Cosmic and Earthly Nutrition: The process of nutrition; meat or vegetarian? Nutrition for young children and infants, diets (four lectures 1936)
The Cultural Task of Agriculture: Food, nourishment, digestion (three lectures 1943)
Streams of Earthly and Cosmic Nutrition in Man and Plant (four lectures 1953)
The Meteorological Organs of the Earth and Human Beings: Lung, liver, kidneys, heart (six lectures 1958)
Intestines and Brain (Notes for farmers 1964)
Nutrition and Healing (Notes of a lecture in Prague 1933)