Along came her yoga class - Editorial

Better Nutrition, Nov, 2003 by John Monahan

If you'd like to add high-quality, low-fat protein to your diet--as so many people are doing these days--whey protein is a supplement to consider. You'll be in good company: No less than the famous Miss Muffet--she of Mother Goose's tuffet--enjoyed her curds and whey before running off to her yoga class, or so the contemporary story goes. (By the way, a tuffet is a low stool, which she could sit on while milking the cow whose milk made the whey.) Read "Whey Protein," p. 52.

Because this month begins the season of goodwill, peace and joviality, we decided a story about stress was in order--there's nothing like great expectations to wrack the old nervous system. Besides which, you still have to work to make the money to buy the gifts that family, friends, co-workers, third cousins twice-removed, alumni associations, charities for the permanently offended and the drooling guy on the subway expect. All you Type A's turn to "Job Stress," p. 28, for the story.

But it is also a time for love, which naturally makes you think of pomegranates. No? Well, you will after you read about the history of this antioxidant-laden fruit ("Fruit of the Bloom," p. 34). And once you see how versatile pomegranates are, you may want to include some of our recipes in your holiday menus.

Of course, if you're really, really motivated to make your Thanksgiving Day dinner duplicate the Pilgrims' feast, you'll have to serve eel. Yes, that floored us too. But Darra Goldstein, the food historian we talked to ("Pilgrims' Progress," p. 54), assures us that it's true. And did you know that Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday thanks to the perseverance of a magazine editor?

And speaking of Honest Abe, we'd like to express our thanks to all the natural products retailers who bring you Better Nutrition. As one of our writers noted some months ago, they truly are a force for the public good.