Nutrition from Earth and Cosmos

by Karl König

Overview

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 König recognized the significance of human nutrition nearly one hundred years ago. In the 1920s he started lecturing on the subject as part of a program 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. König's work is introduced by three contemporary researchers into nutritional practice, and finishes with König's appreciation of the only mealtime grace given by Rudolf Steiner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782501633
Publisher:	Floris Books
Publication date:	05/15/2012
Series:	Karl König Archive
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karl König (1902-66) was well-known as a physician, author and lecturer. He began his work at the Institute of Embryology at the University of Vienna. In 1940 he founded the Camphill Movement in Scotland. Based on the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner, these special education schools for children, and villages for adults with special needs, are now established all over Britain and Europe, North America and Southern Africa.

Table of Contents

Nutrition and Healing by Erdmut Schädel Anthroposophical Research into Nutrition by Petra Kühne 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)

Editorial Reviews

'There is much in these lectures that is thought-provoking.'
– New View

'This book will be apprecited by many sympathetic readers who want to deepen their grasp on the past elements that have informed the growth and development of the Camphill Movement.'
– New View

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