What Heidegger and Phenomenology Have to Do with Eating Healthy

The grand mystery of our existence is the inextricable connection of the physical with the spiritual, the interplay of our biology with our personhood. And are we thinking integratively?

One way to describe the history of philosophy is by tracing a violent ricochet from one extreme idea to another. If common thought in the middle ages was characterized by superstition, the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution overreacted by emphasizing only what can be proved through scientific empiricism. This led to the tendency to reduce man t…