By monitoring how many calories, fat or carbohydrates you take in each day you can begin to decrease these amounts and lose weight. By recording what you eat it helps you decide what food groups you are missing. Many people dont eat the recommended fruits and vegetables to meet a healthy diet. Writing down the foods you eat helps you see what you are missing and meet those requirements. Creating a record of your daily food intake and exercise program can be very beneficial to your physician if he prescribes a special diet for you. Many people can suffer with medical problems based on their diet. By recording what you eat helps you discover problem foods and what you should avoid. Recording your food intake makes you realize just how much food you are eating each day.

During the past two decades, postcolonial studies has proven to be one of the fastest growing fields of critical inquiry. Postcolonialism has established itself as an important specialist field within literature disciplines, and it has strong resonances across other disciplines (history, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies) and is a field which has inspired genuinely interdisciplinary research. Linked Histories: Postcolonial Studies in a Globalized World, collected from the journal ARIEL (A Review of International English Literataure), take up some of the most pressing issues in postcolonial debates: the challenges which new theories of globalization present for postcolonial studies, the difficulties of rethinking how "marginality" might be defined in a new globalized world, the problems of imagining social transformation within globalization. The editors' goal in bringing together this collection of articles is not to provide any definitive statement on these urgent questions; rather, it is to assemble a group of essays which "think through" the issues and which therefore has the potential to move the discipline forward. The contributors represented include a balance of senior scholars with international reputations and scholars who represent the next generation. With Contributions By: Bill Ashcroft Rey Chow Rob Cover Wendy Faith Monika Fludernik Revathi Krishnaswamy Mary Lawlor Victor Li Pamela McCallum Vijay Mishra Wang Ning Kalpana Sheshadri-Crooks

How should the project of cultural studies change for the twenty-first century? Does theory have general application? How should we evaluate revolutions? How should we define countries, like China, on the margins of modernity and post-modernity? Is a neo-orientalism emerging in today's world? These are questions Shaobo Xie and Wang Fengzhen ask a panel of North America's leading cultural critics. What emerges is a remarkable collection of interviews and dialogues that discuss culture, ideology, history, Marxism, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalization, and the role of the university and the intellectual in today's society.

In the past decade, Jane Ash Poitras, a First Nations woman from northern Alberta, has emerged as one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation. Raised by a German widow who powdered her dark skin and tried to make her straight hair curl, Poitras did not begin to fully explore her indigenous roots until adulthood. Seeking out her extended family and participating in profound cultural experiences, she began to discover the side of herself that she was denied as a child. At the same time, she made a commitment to her art. With the opportunity to pursue a Masters degree at Columbia University in New York, Poitras was at the center of the North American contemporary art scene. Together, these dual influences shaped Poitras's unique style, one that combines representational strategies of postmodern art--collage, layering, overpainting, incorporation of found objects--with a deep commitment to the politics and issues common to indigenous peoples. "Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures" situates Poitras's work in the national context of Canadian First Nations art during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the period when she began to receive wide recognition. It is the first book-length study to examine Poitras's career as a whole, recounting her development as an artist, participation in major exhibitions, and recognition as a significant Canadian and international artist. Along with detailed analysis of specific artworks, author Pamela McCallum has also compiled the most extensive bibliography of writings on Poitras to date.

Modern Tragedy, first published in 1966, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience. Modern Tragedy is available only in this Broadview Encore Edition, now edited and with a critical introduction by Pamela McCallum.