Chew offers clue to what’s eating you
Denise Lamothe has “issues” with food. When she was about 10, she went on a two-week liquid diet with her mother and sister. From there she struggled with anorexia, then bulimia and finally obesity. “I felt like I was in a jail because my mind was always occupied with food,” said Lamothe, a licensed psychologist and holistic doctor. By age 50, Lamothe had gotten her food addiction under control. Now, she’s sharing her experiences to help others do the same.
Lamothe names the impulse to engage in self-harming behavior “the chew,” which provides her with the title of her book, “The Taming of the Chew: A Holistic Guide to Stopping Compulsive Eating.” Her premise is that people should understand the emotional causes underlying their particular “chew”–loneliness, insecurity, anger–and adapt accordingly.
But the chew never goes away. “You can’t annihilate that part of yourself, it’s your saboteur, and we all have it,” she said. “But you can … manage it.”
Booker Prize still closed to Americans
American writers won’t have the chance to win Britain’s most prestigious literary award, according to organizers of the Booker Prize.
“We took the decision that the Man Booker Prize should remain as it is because its hallmark is that it honors Commonwealth writers,” Martyn Goff, administrator of the prize, said. “That is what the prize has built its reputation on over the last 35 years, and its integrity is valued worldwide.”
The suggestion that organizers would expand eligibility beyond writers from Britain, the Commonwealth of its former colonies and Ireland first surfaced last spring, spawning furious debate about whether British or American fiction writing would prove stronger.
Goff said the prize organizers were considering setting up a separate lifetime achievement award along with the annual Booker for best novel, and that that would be open to writers of any nationality, as long as their work was published in English.
The Booker Prize, backed by the Booker foods group, was established in 1969.
