The sensuality of food satisfies our need for nourishment, comfort and pleasure. Most of our collective and individual history is the story of eating: where to gather the food, how to keep it, who is trying to take it, what land is best to cultivate it, how riches relate to it.
For each of us the favorite flavour of a particular food reminds us of the security and love of being with someone who gave us warmth, who cared about us. Food then is also emotional support.
In our times with all the other miracles of our lives: technology, free-time, entertainments, we count also among the most miraculous the food store.

Every now and then, we overeat. As a result we have that bloated, uncomfortable feeling of being too full. What to do?

The most natural way to work with the results of too much food is to walk. Walk for several blocks, or a couple of km if you live in the country. Walk outdoors if at all possible. Walk in your local mall if that is what makes a walk happen. But do walk.

You will find very soon all the symptoms shifting as your body does what it needs to do, digest the large meal, but does so in much more ease. The muscle action and motion of your walk increases the blood flow and oxygen to parts of your body most in need. That blood flow and oxygen mean the whole process of digestion will occur more easily.

Many people believe a vegetarian diet to be the best. When we think about it, it's true that cows and lamb, the most common sources of red meat, take up much needed farm land. It is also true our habits in raising these stock animals, including antibiotics in their daily diet, force feeding them in some cases and in the case of veal leaving new born calves in small confined cages so they are unable to walk or develop muscle, are unhealthy and in some cases cruel to the animal.

These are some of the ideas behind becoming a vegetarian. But what about those people who desire and in fact need red meat in their diet?