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Taechang Kim

1918年生れの画家掘文子さんの生き方
-考え方-行い方に 好意好感が生じる.
まさに美老の一つの模範のように響く.

本書を読み終えて、最も生命感覚に響いたのは掘さんの最後の一言:
"'息の絶えるまで感動していたい." ( p. 168) 숨이 막힐 때까지 감동하고 싶다.
真の意味で最後の瞬間まで感動し続ける生き様こそ
老熟美の真髄ではないか?!
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堀文子
出典: フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』


堀 文子
生誕 1918年7月2日
東京都麹町区平河町
(現:東京都千代田区麹町
死没 2019年2月5日(100歳没)
神奈川県平塚市
国籍 日本
著名な実績 日本画

活動期間 1938年 - 2019年


堀 文子(ほり ふみこ、1918年7月2日 - 2019年2月5日)は、日本画家東京市麹町区平河町(現・東京都千代田区麹町)生まれ。
来歴[編集]

永田町小学校(現・千代田区立麹町小学校)、東京府立第五高等女学校(現・都立富士高等学校)、女子美術専門学校師範科日本画部(現・女子美術大学芸術学部美術学科日本画専攻)を卒業[1]。府立第五高等女学校時代に自宅近くで二・二六事件に遭遇した[1]

女子美術専門学校在学中の1938年に第2回新美術人協会展入選。1940年に女子美術専門学校を卒業し新美術人協会会員。『キンダーブック』(フレーベル館)、『ふたば』などで挿画や装幀を描き生計を立てる。

29歳の時に外交官箕輪三郎と結婚するも43歳のときに死別。

1961年から1963年にかけ世界放浪の旅へ出る。旅の中でアンフォルメルシュルレアリスムの影響を離れ、日本画の持つ色彩や顔料の美しさに回帰する。

1967年に神奈川県大磯に転居。1974年創画会の結成に参画。

1974年に多摩美術大学日本画科教授に就任。その後、多摩美術大学客員教授として日本画の指導を行う。1999年に多摩美術大学客員教授を退任。

1981年に軽井沢にアトリエを構える。1987年にイタリアアレッツォにアトリエを構える。1992年にアレッツオ市で堀文子個展を開催。1995年にアマゾン川マヤ遺跡インカ遺跡へスケッチ旅行。1999年に創画会を退会。

2011年に女子美術大学より名誉博士の称号を得る。

2000年、82歳の時に幻の高山植物ブルーポピーを求め、ヒマラヤ山脈の高地を踏破(「アーティストたちの挑戦 ヒマラヤ 高き峰をもとめて 日本画家 堀文子」(NHK収録/放送、2000年)。2001年に解離性動脈瘤で倒れて[2]以降、長期間の取材旅行に出かけられなくなったことから微生物に着目し、海中に生きる命をモチーフとする作品を発表。これらの作品は画文集や個展で発表された。

自然の中に存在する命や花鳥をモチーフとする作品を多く制作し「花の画家」と呼ばれた。専門の日本画の他、装幀随筆でも多くの作品を発表した。神奈川県大磯町に在住していた(2012年時点[2])。

2019年2月5日午前0時56分、心不全のため平塚市内の病院で死去[3][4]。100歳没。

洋画家内海信彦は甥である。

アルビレックスチアリーダーズに2003年から2010年まで所属していた堀文子は、同姓同名の別人である[5]
主な個展[編集]堀文子展(名都美術館(1994年、2002年))
堀文子展(箱根成川美術館(1994年、2001年))
堀文子展(ニューオータニ美術館(2004年、2007年))
堀文子展(髙島屋(2007年))
堀文子展(ナカジマアート(1997年、1999年、2001年~2006年、2008年、2014年[6]
堀文子特別展(香雪美術館(2010年))
主な著作[編集]生きて死ぬ智慧 (柳澤桂子共著 小学館 2004年10月)
ホルトの木の下で(幻戯書房、2007年)
対談集 ―堀文子 粋人に会う―(清流出版、2009年)
ひとりで生きる 堀文子の言葉 (求龍堂 「生きる言葉」シリーズ 2010年2月)
堀文子美の旅人 画家のまなざしと心を追って 飯島幸永写真集 (実業之日本社 2010年4月)
老いて、若返る 人生、90歳からが面白い (日野原重明共著 小学館 2011年4月)
人生の達人・堀文子の生き方(中島良成共著 中央公論新社 2021年11月)黒柳徹子回想インタビューも収録
極上の流転 堀文子への旅(中央公論新社、2013年。中公文庫、2015年)評伝、巻末に対談画文集堀文子写生集 (マリア書房 1970年)
みち (至光社 1972年)
堀文子写生集 (アート社出版 1976年)
日々去来 (絵と文 アート社出版 1980年9月)
花(JTB、1982年)
季(JTB、1984年)
径(JTB、1987年)
トスカーナの花野 (JTB日本交通公社出版事業局 1991年7月)
愛の季節 堀文子・俵万智画歌集 (アートデイズ 1995年7月)
楽園幻想 (吉行和子講談社 1997年5月)
南の華 堀文子画文集 (JTB 1998年4月)
時の刻印 堀文子画文集 (求龍堂 1999年11月)
命の軌跡 堀文子画文集 (ウインズ出版 2003年4月)
花のスケッチ帳(JTBパブリッシング、2007年)
命といふもの(小学館、2007年)
堀文子展 年月の記録スケッチ帳より (名都美術館ニューオータニ美術館編 ニューオータニ美術館 2007年9月)
トスカーナのスケッチ帳 (JTBパブリッシング 2008年3月)
堀文子画文集1999〜2009 (JTBパブリッシング 2009年12月)ISBN 978-4533076763
無心にして花を尋ね 堀文子画文集 命といふもの 第2集 (小学館 サライ・ブックス 2009年4月)ISBN 978-4093434355
主な受賞歴[編集]新美術人協会展(第2回(1938年)
創作美術展奨励賞(第1回(1948年)、第2回(1949年)
上村松園賞(1952年)
神奈川文化賞(第36回(1988年))
主な作品収蔵[編集]女子美術大学美術館
神奈川県立近代美術館
成川美術館
東京国立近代美術館
京セラ美術館
兵庫県立美術館
韮崎大村美術館
作品設置[編集]福島空港ターミナルビル(作品名:「ユートピア」(陶板レリーフ))[5]
テレビ出演番組[編集]ヒューマンドキュメンタリー「画家・堀文子 93歳の決意」(2011年9月19日、NHK戸井十月との鼎談)
こころの時代~宗教・人生~ シリーズ 私の戦後70年 「今、あの日々を思う」(2015年10月11日、NHK Eテレ[7]
脚注


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Fumiko Hori
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Fumiko Hori
Born July 2, 1918

Tokyo, Japan
Died February 5, 2019 (aged 100)

Hiratsuka, Japan
Style Nihonga


Fumiko Hori (堀 文子, Hori Fumiko, July 2, 1918[1] – February 5, 2019) was a Japanese artist, known for her paintings in the Nihonga style.
Biography[edit]

Hori was born to a scholarly family in Hirakawacho, in Tokyo, Japan, in 1918.[2][3] In 1940, she graduated from Women's School of Fine Arts (now Joshibi University of Art and Design).[4][5][6] She trained in Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting style.[2] In 1952, she won the Uemura Shōen Award, given to outstanding Japanese female painters.[7]

In 1960, Hori's husband, a diplomat, died of tuberculosis.[8] Hori decided to travel the world, leaving Japan for the first time and visiting Egypt, Europe, the United States and Mexico.[2] Upon her return to Japan, she moved to the Kanagawa countryside[8] and created works inspired by her travels.[2] The natural world, including flowers and animals, was a theme of her work throughout her career.[3][9]

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Hori created illustrations for magazines and children's books,[2][3] including a 1971 picture book adaption of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker that won an award at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.[3][10] She also taught painting at Tama Art University.[9] In 1987, she won the Kanagawa Culture Prize.[9]

Hori lived in Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy, for five years from 1987, setting up a studio there and painting colourful images of the local setting.[8][3] She continued to travel to countries around the world, including such destinations as the Amazon, Nepal, and Mexico.[8]

In 2000, she survived life-threatening aneurysm; she was inspired by this experience to paint microorganisms, as viewed under a microscope.[2][8] This work appeared in a solo exhibition at Nakajima Art Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo.[8] A ceramic piece based on one of her paintings, Utopia, was installed in the lobby of Fukushima Airport in 2014.[11]

Hori continued to paint into her final years.[2][7] The Museum of Modern Art in Hayama showed a retrospective of her work from November 2017 to March 2018;[12] the earliest piece was a self-portrait from 1930, and the most recent piece was Red-Flowering Japanese Apricot, painted in 2016 when Hori was 98 years old.[2]

Hori died on February 5, 2019, at a hospital in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, at age 100.[10] The Narukawa Art Museum in Hakone, home of over 100 of her works, hosted a memorial exhibition from July to November 2019.[13]
See also[edit]List of Nihonga painters 

 
References[edit]
^ "日本画家・堀文子さんの創作の軌跡を辿る|京都と東京で「生誕100年 堀文子追悼展─旅人の記憶─」開催". サライ.jp|小学館の雑誌『サライ』公式サイト (in Japanese). April 10, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2020. 堀文子(ほり・ふみこ)大正7年7月2日、東京生まれ。(Fumiko Hori was born in Tokyo on July 2, Taisho 7 [1918]).
^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h Gleason, Alan. "Starting from Zero: The Liberated Nihonga of Fumiko Hori". artscape Japan. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
^ Jump up to:a b c d e "堀 文子【一所不在・旅】展". Hiyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ "Fumiko HORI's artworks – Japanese Painting Gallery". Japanese Painting Gallery. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ "Hori Fumiko". Gallery Sakura. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ 堀, 文子 (2012). "芸術家から見た脳". 認知神経科学. 14. doi:10.11253/ninchishinkeikagaku.14.90.
^ Jump up to:a b "日本画家の堀文子さん死去…100歳 : エンタメ・文化 : ニュース". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). February 7, 2019. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ Jump up to:a b c d e f 高橋昇 (March 5, 2019). "【インタビュー】追悼・堀文子さん(日本画家)「旅はひとり。事前に調べもしない、"行ってから驚く"体験主義者です」". サライ.jp|小学館の雑誌『サライ』公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ Jump up to:a b c "孤高の日本画家・堀文子さん100歳逝く | 大磯・二宮・中井". タウンニュース (in Japanese). February 15, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ Jump up to:a b "日本画家の堀文子さんが死去 絵本でも人気、100歳 | 共同通信". Kyodo News (in Japanese). February 7, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
^ "Public Art | Fukushima Airport "Utopia"(Fumiko Hori)". Japan Traffic Culture Association. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ "HORI Fumiko". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ "【特別追悼展】堀 文子展 ~感謝と哀悼の意を込めて~". www.artagenda.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved December 10, 2019.


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그 반약심경을 현대의 이수계의 사람이 해석한다면 저자에 한하지 않고 이런 해석이 되는 것은 아닐까.
결코 이단이나 센세이셔널한 해석이 아니라고 생각한다.
문학에서도, 명작만큼 읽을 때마다 여러가지 발견이 있고, 읽는 사람에 의해 여러가지 메시지를 느낀다.
하물며, 고래연연하게 전해져 온 불교 진리에 있어서 아자.

그리고 그림이 훌륭합니다. 「그림책, 반약심경」이라고 해도 좋은 정도일지도 모른다.

「모든 것은 하늘이다」라는 달관은 니히리즘에도 포기로도 이어질 수 있다.
그러나 만물이 옮겨가는 것이야말로 한정된 길이인 '목숨'과 '지금·여기'에 감사하고 소중히 해야 한다고도 말할 수 있다.
,, 그 양극까지를 포함한 것이, 「깨달음」이라고 하는 것일까?

10명이 도움이 되었다고 합니다.보고서
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별 5개 중 4.0개 이 책은 알기 쉽고 반약 심경을 해설하고 있습니다.2015년 4월 20일 일본에서 검토됨
확인된 구매
십년 전, NHK 방송에서 이 책을 알고 애독했습니다. 반약심경은 전부 암기하고 있었지만, 이 책에서 다시 그 의미하는 곳의 깊이를 재인식한 대로입니다. 그리고 최근 친밀한 친구 두 명이 여러가지 고민하고 있었으므로, 이 책을 2권 구입해, 두 사람에게 선물 했습니다.

2명이 도움이 되었다고 합니다.보고서
리뷰를 영어로 번역

이전 페이지
다음 페이지


후원
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The Last Hour of Grace Paperback – January 1, 2004
by Fumiko Hori (Author), Etsuko Tanaka (Author)


From the back cover: Over her long career, Fumiko Hori has won acclaim as one of the prime exponents of the style of Japanese painting known as nihonga. In "The Last Hour of Grace," the English-reading audience is presented for the first time with a comprehensive introduction to this artist in the form of essays by Hori, dialogues in which the artist discusses her life and her art and a generous sampling of her older and recent works.

48 pages

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Prime Video: The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-Being

Prime Video: The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-Being

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The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-Being
Season 1
In this astonishing look at the wide-scale adoption of mindfulness techniques into mainstream psychology and healthcare, study the brain science underlying these traditional wisdom practices and experience their extraordinary effects in your own life.
2020
29 episodes
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S1 E1 - Why Mindfulness Matters


June 1, 2020
34min
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Begin by exploring the nature of mindfulness practice as a means of developing awareness with acceptance of our present experience. Review its remarkable range of psychological and physical benefits, dispel common misconceptions, and uncover the three core skills it employs as part of an empirically-supported path to well-being.
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June 1, 2020
31min
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Here, discover how our brains are actually predisposed, evolutionarily, to psychological distress. Learn about the human "negativity bias," and how our tendency to both anticipate and try to avoid pain leads to problems. Consider what mindfulness teaches us about the mind, and what challenges might arise in practicing mindfulness - beginning with awareness of breath.
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S1 E3 - Informal, Formal, and Intensive Practices


June 1, 2020
31min
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Grasp how mindfulness, like physical fitness, must be developed through regular and sustained practice. Investigate ways of cultivating mindfulness during daily activities such as bathing or driving, and understand the significant benefits of formal meditative practice and intensive retreats. Learn also about walking and eating meditation.
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S1 E4 - Who Am I? The Perils of Self


June 1, 2020
31min
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Now grapple with one of the most fundamental and challenging insights that come from mindfulness practice. With reference to both cognitive science and traditional Buddhist thought, observe how the human mind creates the illusory sense of a "separate" self, and how this conception of separateness is itself the cause of suffering.
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S1 E5 - Mindfulness or Psychotherapy?


June 1, 2020
32min
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Delve into the implications of mindfulness practice for psychological well-being. Learn how mindfulness practice works toward many of the same goals as psychotherapy. Explore how the ultimate aim of traditional mindfulness practice diverges from earlier Western psychology in proposing a more radical path to psychological, emotional, and spiritual freedom.
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S1 E6 - Attention and Empathy in Relationships


June 1, 2020
32min
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See how mindfulness practices train us to embrace our moment-to-moment experience. Learn how this capacity allows us to be with discomfort and to freely tolerate all emotional states, and how this can positively affect our relationships through cultivating empathy, open-mindedness, and mental flexibility.
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S1 E7 - The Science of Compassion and Self-Compassion


June 1, 2020
31min
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"Compassion" is empathy for suffering that includes a desire to alleviate it. Learn how compassion for oneself is associated with virtually every desirable psychological outcome. Learn steps and exercises to cultivate compassion both for yourself and others, and review studies on the benefits of developing compassion.
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S1 E8 - Tailoring Practices to Fit Changing Needs


June 1, 2020
32min
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In choosing mindfulness practices for your own life, consider seven different criteria or questions to ask, such as which mindfulness skills to emphasize; whether to favor secular or religious approaches; and when to do practices that cultivate a sense of safety as opposed to those that work with difficult psychological material.
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S1 E9 - Modifying Our Brain Function and Structure


June 1, 2020
31min
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Take a thorough look at mindfulness and brain function. Review studies that show how mindfulness practice activates areas of the brain that regulate emotions, integrate thoughts and feelings, increase empathy, and facilitate learning and memory, while also retaining more brain matter and staving off aspects of cognitive decline typically associated with aging.
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S1 E10 - Solitude - An Antidote to Loneliness


June 1, 2020
31min
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Explore how mindfulness and compassion practices deepen connection and communication with others, and also cultivate an awareness of "interbeing" - our connection to the larger world. Review data showing how mindfulness skills enhance relationships, and see how mindfulness fosters the ability to be alone, a capacity essential for intimacy.
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S1 E11 - Connecting with Children and Adolescents


June 1, 2020
30min
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Mindfulness practice offers distinct benefits for caregivers of young people. Observe how mindfulness training helps us enter a child's world through developing spontaneity and sensitivity, as well as fostering effective responses to misbehavior. Also learn mindfulness techniques that children and young people can use themselves.
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S1 E12 - Seeing Sadness and Depression in a New Light


June 1, 2020
32min
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Grasp how depression involves shutting down and turning away from pain, and how mindfulness practice turns our attention to the experience at hand, thus challenging the depressive stance. Observe how mindfulness changes our relationship to thoughts, moods, and feelings, allowing us to see them as transient events.
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S1 E13 - Befriending Fear, Worry, and Anxiety


June 1, 2020
32min
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Investigate the nature of anxiety and fear, seeing their roots in fantasies about the future. Consider how we typically cope with worry and anxiety by distracting ourselves, and how mindfulness training can free us from anxiety through directly facing our fears while grounded in the present moment.
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S1 E14 - Transforming Chronic Pain


June 1, 2020
32min
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Review substantial evidence that the vast majority of chronic back pain is actually stress-related, and learn about the effects of negative emotions on the body. Discover how mindfulness practice offers an effective approach to dealing with physical pain, through changing our relationship to both the symptom and to pain-related thinking.
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S1 E15 - Placebos, Illness, and the Power of Belief


June 1, 2020
31min
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Explore the extraordinary power of the mind to affect our subjective experience of the body. Review astonishing data on the effectiveness of placebos in medical treatment, and learn how mindfulness practice can aid in treating conditions such as insomnia, sexual dysfunction, gastrointestinal problems, and illness anxiety.
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S1 E16 - Interrupting Addiction and Troublesome Habits


June 1, 2020
33min
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Investigate the nature of compulsive behaviors and the psychological patterns that keep them in place. Observe how mindful awareness can dismantle these patterns, allowing us to be with changing waves of feelings and urges without having to act on them. Learn about effective mindfulness-based programs for a range of problematic behaviors.
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S1 E17 - Overcoming Traumas Large and Small


June 1, 2020
32min
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Study how trauma affects the mind, and how the tendency to suppress traumatic experiences leads to painful symptoms and unhealthy behavior. Grasp the ways in which mindfulness techniques can be highly effective for processing and integrating avoided feelings, and learn four practical steps for working with traumatic material.
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S1 E18 - Groundbreaking Mindfulness Programs


June 1, 2020
30min
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We are now seeing the wide-scale adoption of mindfulness practices into many healthcare settings. Study the approaches and benefits of pioneering programs such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and learn additional techniques that can deepen any mindfulness practice.
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S1 E19 - The Neurobiology of Self-Preoccupation


June 1, 2020
31min
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Science is now able to measure brain activity related to self-referential thinking - self-focused thought patterns that tend to correlate with distress. Examine findings from recent studies showing that experienced meditators can quickly step out of the self-preoccupied thought stream, with significant benefits for their ability to deal with pain and to cultivate wellness.
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S1 E20 - Growing Up Isn't Easy - Facing Impermanence


June 1, 2020
29min
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Mindfulness traditions teach us that facing impermanence can be extraordinarily liberating. Assess your readiness, and consider how mindfulness practices offer a different way of relating to the realities of aging, sickness, and death itself, and how cultivating deep attention to the present moment allows us to freely enjoy all the stages of life.
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S1 E21 - Toward a Science of Wisdom


June 1, 2020
31min
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Today, scientific psychologists are beginning to grapple with the question of what wisdom is and how it may be developed. Examine current experimental models for studying wisdom, and discover the key elements of wisdom they identify. Review eight ways that mindfulness practices can help us to develop wisdom.
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S1 E22 - The Promise of Enlightenment


June 1, 2020
32min
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The ultimate goal of traditional mindfulness practice is a psychological transformation known as "enlightenment." Grasp the nature of this awakening in practical terms and learn about various pitfalls and challenges people encounter along the path, including spiritual materialism, foundations for awareness, and interpersonal contexts.
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S1 E23 - Mindful Ethics as a Path to Freedom


June 1, 2020
32min
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Recent research suggests a bilateral relationship between ethics and well-being. Consider five ethical precepts, and use them as tools of inquiry to observe which actions lead to suffering for ourselves and others. Learn how to develop an empirically derived ethical code - one not received as doctrine, but based in personal experience.
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S1 E24 - The New Science of Happiness


June 1, 2020
40min
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Finally, learn about the new field of positive psychology, and how mindfulness practices foster empirically-supported paths to happiness. Consider the many things that we mistakenly assume will produce happiness, and the alternative of a reliable avenue to well-being, grounded in attention to the present moment, engagement in life, gratitude, and connectedness to others.
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S1 E25 - Bonus Meditation: Breath Awareness Practice


June 1, 2020
28min
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Bonus Meditation
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S1 E26 - Bonus Meditation: Loving Kindness Practice


June 1, 2020
22min
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Bonus Meditation
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S1 E27 - Bonus Meditation: Mountain Meditation


June 1, 2020
8min
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Bonus Meditation
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S1 E28 - Bonus Meditation: Breathing Together


June 1, 2020
21min
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Bonus Meditation
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S1 E29 - Bonus Meditation: Stepping Into Fear


June 1, 2020
12min
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Bonus Meditation
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Kabat Zinn - first 3 books to read

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Which Kabat-Zinn book first? - Everyday Mindfulness

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stopitaggersPosts: 18Location: Pontefract UK
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Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:15 pm
I'd appreciate some views on which of Jon's books I should read first. Does it matter what order they are read in?

As a novice, my only book so far has been "Mindfulness for Dummies", which I found quite comprehensive and written in a gentle, supportive way.


I was lurking in Waterstones bookshop the other day and skimmed through the "Rough Guide to Mindfulness" (yes, there is one - and pretty good too) and the suggestion there is to read "Full catastrophe living" first, then move on from there.

Thoughts anyone?

Dave
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Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:46 pm
I read "Wherever You Go, There You Are" and it changed my life, I then went on to read the others after that. I'm not too sure that it matters the order that you read them in.
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JonWTeam MemberPosts: 2840Practice Mindfulness Since: 08 Dec 2012Location: Brighton
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Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:39 am
I started with "Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" by Mark Williams and Danny Penman and 

then moved on to JKZ's "Wherever You Go..." 
Then I read JKZ's "Full Catastrophe Living" and "Coming To Our Senses". 

That order worked for me. "Full Catastrophe Living", in my opinion, would be too challenging a read if one hadn't read "Wherever You Go..." first.

For beginners I'd also highly recommend Oli Doyle's "Mindfulness Pure & Simple", "The Mindfulness Manifesto" by Dr. Jonty Heaversedge and Ed Halliwell, "The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness" by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and JKZ, and "The Miracle Of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hanh.

If you fancy looking into Zen, the works of Alan Watts are indispensable. Roshi Philip Kapleau's The Three Pillars Of Zen is a great starting point.
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Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:17 am

JonW wrote:"Full Catastrophe Living", in my opinion, would be too challenging a read if one hadn't read "Wherever You Go..." first.I had that order in mind, thanks for confirming it, Jon

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Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:20 am
Kabat-Zinn's Coming To Our Senses is, for me, the perfect book to read just at the point when mindfulness is a natural part of your everyday life. Not only is it the greatest book about mindfulness I have read, it's one of my favourite books period. Every page is packed with gentle wisdom. Not available on Kindle and new copies are a little pricey. But Amazon usually have good offers. It's currently available for £11, less than half its recommended retail price. But it is a whopping great door-stopper of book so you more than get your money's worth.
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Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:56 am
Thanks guys, "Wherever you go ..." has just arrived and after I've read that I will follow your recommendations.

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Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:19 pm
Let us know what you think, Dave. A masterpiece, in my view. So beautifully written, so utterly wise.
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Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:04 pm
I am thinking of getting 'Coming To Our Senses', I haven't read that much JKZ and this sounds like the book most fitting to where I am right now.
I need to factor in more reading time in to my day when the children are back at school. I have so many books and articles I want to read and somehow I don't have the time. I know that is because of the time I spend mindlessly watching the TV. I found the recent exercise on avoiding social media gave me a lot more time too so I need to take this forward I think.

I will report back in due corse
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Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:20 pm
Coming To Our Senses should keep you occupied for a while, weighing in at 600+ pages.
I loved it so much I ended up rationing myself, allowing myself only a few pages at a time so I could savour it properly, like a raisin.
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Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:28 pm

JonW wrote:Coming To Our Senses should keep you occupied for a while, weighing in at 600+ pages.
I loved it so much I ended up rationing myself, allowing myself only a few pages at a time so I could savour it properly, like a raisin.That made me smile
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Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:48 pm
Jon

"I loved it so much I ended up rationing myself, allowing myself only a few pages at a time so I could savour it properly, like a raisin."

That's a really nice way of looking at it. JKZ's books are good for just making you feel it all makes sense and it can be tempting to just read and read (and his style of speech and writing just goes on and on in a continuous stream - I believe he really could talk all night). But as he says, you can read until you are blue in the face, but you also need to practice. So savouring like a raisin is very apt.

For me a blend of reading and practising is good. I also read books on positive psychology and am currently reading 'The Happiness Advantage" by Shawn Achor - and its very noticeable that all such books recommend mindfulness/meditation as the bedrock on which to base a more positive/happier outlook.

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Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:10 pm
Thanks Fee and Steve.
I'll check out the Shawn Achor book.
I'm mainly reading books by Toni Packer at the moment. Though Packer's not strictly writing about mindfulness (she's been described as "a Zen teacher minus the Zen"), she's the closest I've got to encountering a female version of Kabat-Zinn. She's so gently wise that I feel the need to jot down passages every other paragraph. Like Kabat-Zinn, she writes in that "continuous stream" style that Steve mentioned in connection with JKZ.
I doubt I'm for the turning at my age but I do quite "fancy" Jon Kabat-Zinn. There's something about his writing that suggests to me he'd make a damn fine kisser. Anyway, I've got that off my chest now!
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Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:19 pm
Jon

LOL - as nice as he is as a person, and having seen him in real life, I can't say he does it for me in that way! But hey everyone to their own.

Toni Packer's work sound interesting, I'll look it up - as Fee says there is no danger of ever running out of stuff to read! Good job a love of learning is one of my core strengths!

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Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:04 pm
Steve, every man is entitled to a man crush.
Feel free to share...
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Thu Apr 11, 2013 12:37 pm
I do believe I just LOL'd

I really can't wait for this book to arrive now so I can share both my opinions on JKZ's writing and possible kissing ability!
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Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:13 pm
Hello,

I started with Full Catastrophe Living about 3 years ago, passed onto me by my sister, who found it helpful. It changed my thinking and marks when a positive shift began in my life. Last year I passed that book on to someone else, but will probably get myself another copy. Meanwhile, "Wherever You Go, There You Are" is by my bedside. I won't let go of that one.
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:42 pm
I was thrilled to notice that Jon Kabat-Zinn (hereafter to be known as The Gorgeous Jon Kabat-Zinn!) has a new book out, or at least a book written in conjunction with Mark Williams. It's a bit pricey but I couldn't resist ordering it. I'll let you all know what I think when I'm done with it.
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:32 pm
I will wait eagerly to hear your thoughts on this one.
I need to read my new book and listen to the audio books before buying anything else. Hopefully it will be a bit cheaper by then
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:02 pm
Twenty quid is a bit steep but I'm off the sauce at the minute so I figured I'd only have spent that amount on wine this weekend. This way I'm sober and I get to read yet more JKZ. Though I've got a feeling he's only done the intro to this one...
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Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:05 pm
I too adore the way that JKZ writes, and I have this man to thank for introducing me to this thing that changed my life.

My only problem with his work is that it sometimes feels a bit wordy and somewhat inaccessible to people who perhaps aren't so intellectually capable. Mindfulness is an very simple concept when you really strip it back, and while JKZ's work is utterly compelling, I don't think it's for everyone.
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Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:26 pm
Again, it's like the raisin that we started out this adventure with.
Kabat-Zinn is best savoured slowly. Paragraph by paragraph. Don't tip the whole bag of raisins into your gob all at once. And don't rush the mighty JKZ. All in your own sweet time. Moment by moment.
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Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:48 pm
ps. Unless you're munching on a Garabaldi biscuit, obviously.
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5 Best Jon Kabat-Zinn Books on Mindfulness (With Reviews) - Mindful Spot

5 Best Jon Kabat-Zinn Books on Mindfulness (With Reviews) - Mindful Spot



5 Best Jon Kabat-Zinn Books on Mindfulness (With Reviews)
by Gavril April 18, 2023


This article is for you if you’re looking for accessible and beginner-friendly books on mindfulness.

If you’ve heard about mindfulness, you’ve also heard about the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, which combines meditation and yoga to help people manage stress and illness. Its author, Jon Kabat-Zinn, is a renowned American scientist, writer, and meditation teacher who is at the forefront of bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. Kabat-Zinn’s contribution to the field of mindfulness has helped many people around the world understand and practice meditation. In this article, I bring you the best Jon Kabat-Zinn books on mindfulness with reader reviews.


1. Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment — and Your Life



If you want to feel connected, deeply truly connected, to every experience in your daily life, Mindfulness for Beginners will be your guide.

You can use it in three different ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding lesson-a-day primer on mindfulness practice.

Whatever way you choose, you will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential mindfulness practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn have found most useful when teaching his students.

Reader review:


I suggest everyone read this. It has short, easy to read chapters even for busy people. The principles in the book are practical and doable. It has lots to teach us on the topic of mindfulness. Mindfulness helps us to focus back on what’s important and what’s at hand right now. It’s about being kind to ourselves first then to others. In our busy world, we all could use more mindfulness in every day. Great book.

2. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness



If you feel trapped in the cycle of chronic unhappiness, this book will show you a way out, illuminated by the power of mindfulness, a simple yet profound technique of paying attention to your most difficult emotions and experiences.

In The Mindful Way Through Depression, Jon Kabat-Zinn and three other qualified experts explain why trying to “think” your way out of a bad mood will only lead you deeper into the downward spiral.

Drawing from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy, authors demonstrate how to break the mental habits that lead to depression, including self-blame and rumination, so you can become more resilient in the face of life’s challenges. The book includes guided meditations narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn, making it an excellent resource for those seeking to improve their well-being.

Reader review:


I have been an evangelist for this book since I started reading it. I preface my sharing with “disregard the word depression in the title, this book is a fantastic book for anyone”. By practicing what the authors have outlined in this book you can experience deeper and deeper levels of joy, satisfaction and success in your life. That is my claim, not theirs.

This book is about becoming conscious of ourselves – thoughts, feelings, memories we are experiencing in the moment. As we become more and more conscious we have more choice. We can choose to continue to dwell on something that adds no value to our lives or we can choose to focus on what we want and what we can appreciate in this moment.


3. Coming to Our Senses: 
Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness



If you want to learn about the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual well-being, you need to read Coming to Our Senses.

Its pages are full of poetic deftness, scientific rigor, and compelling personal stories which describe simple and intuitive ways of understanding our beauty, our genius, and our life path in a fractured and fear-driven world of today.

You’ll learn that cultivation of conscious awareness leads to the realization of our wholeness, that we don’t just live within the envelope of our own senses, but within the whole of all that is. In the book, this way of being is presented not only through Buddhist understanding but with insights and quotes from Einstein, Rilke, Dickinson, and other great Western minds.

Reader review:


This book talks of the importance of “falling awake,” instead of remaining on autopilot and often unconscious. The mind, body and emotions have been conditioned to automatically react, instead of paying attention and responding to what is unfolding before us, moment by moment. It mentions the importance of paying attention to what is occurring right now, and observing it, not judging or having opinions about it, not pursuing or rejecting it, but simply observing it, allowing it to be, and allowing it go and to pass, as it will. It reminds us to be present in the present moment, and to learn how to be more mindful of our thoughts, feelings, and sensations that are occurring right now. Jon Kabat-Zinn writes eloquently and beautifully.

4. Everyday Blessings: Inner Work of Mindful Parenting




If you want to become a better parent with the power of mindfulness, Everyday Blessings: Inner Work of Mindful Parenting is your essential guide.

The bestselling author and mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn has joined forces with his wife, Myla Kabat-Zinn, to share intuitive and deeply personal experiences of parenthood to show you a path that leads to deeper empathy and love both for your children and yourself.

Sometimes, your child’s emotional intensity can feel like an assault on your senses, resulting in reactivity and stress. This book will show you what you should do with your energy and thoughts in such a scenario and many others, while also improving your outlook and level of contentment.

Reader review:


This is not a how-to parenting manual — it doesn’t provide (or claim to provide) specific advice on feeding, sleeping, discipline, etc. It is the story of one couple’s personal experience with their own three children, and their efforts to raise those children compassionately and mindfully in a frantic, materialistic world. The authors clearly believe strongly in their own choices (extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping, etc.), but do not condemn those who do not adhere to that exact parenting style.

Can anyone (even the authors) maintain Zen-style tranquility at every moment as parents? Of course not. If I compared myself to everything in this book all the time I would feel awful! But the overall concept — paying attention to everyday moments with a child — is an important one. The book talks about parenting as an up and down, winding journey, and it has many wonderful examples of how self-awareness can bring parents and children closer together as children grow.

It’s beautifully written and will be on my shelf for years to come, especially for when I need encouragement in the hard moments of raising my son.


5. Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: 
Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life



You already know that mindfulness can reduce stress and help you achieve embodied well-being. But did you know that it can also become a vital tool in dealing with physical pain?

Your pain may be unavoidable, but suffering, the way you relate to pain, can be optional. This is one of many benefits of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It helps patients with ongoing chronic pain use mindfulness to regulate and attenuate the experience of suffering.

In Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, Jon Kabat-Zinn draws from his experience of working with patients in MBSR program, to guide you through a series of evidence-based practices that you can apply to address even intense forms of physical pain, serving as a vital addition to the medical treatments you might already be receiving.

Reader review:


After living with chronic pain for a year, and trying every pain treatment modality available to me, I turned to meditation as a last ditch effort to make my chronic physical pain bearable. I will be honest, I haven’t listened to the first CD at all, I’ve skipped straight to the tracks on the second CD that get into the actual meditative exercises. Mr. Kabat-Zinn’s voice is unbelievably soothing…almost too soothing (I fall asleep listening to the CD more often that I would like, though I guess that means it is working, since I used to be kept up by the chronic pain).

Today, after returning to work in my office, after working from home for a year, I felt quite a bit of pain. In my chair, I practiced a couple of the meditation exercises at my desk and immediately felt my pain lessen. The best part, unlike pain medication, the meditation did not make me sleepy, and unlike other external means of dealing with pain, no one was the wiser that I was practicing breathing and visual imagery techniques while working. I would highly recommend this CD for people living with chronic pain who are trying to deal with the pain in a natural, low-key way. No meditation experience needed for the practices/exercises taught in this CD.

Complement this list of best Jon Kabat-Zinn books on mindfulness with our article about best mindfulness books by Thich Nhat Hanh.


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Will GMOs Hurt My Body? The Public’s Concerns and How Scientists Have Addressed Them - Science in the News

Will GMOs Hurt My Body? The Public’s Concerns and How Scientists Have Addressed Them - Science in the News




AUGUST 10, 2015

BLOG, SPECIAL EDITION ON GMOS
Will GMOs Hurt My Body? The Public’s Concerns and How Scientists Have Addressed Them



by Megan L. Norris


Summary: As the prevalence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) continues to rise, there has been an increasing public interest for information concerning the safety of these products. Concerns generally focus on how the GMO may affect the environment or how it may affect the consumer. One specific concern is the possibility for GMOs to negatively affect human health. This could result from differences in nutritional content, allergic response, or undesired side effects such as toxicity, organ damage, or gene transfer. To address these concerns, there have been over 100 research studies comparing the effects of traditional food to genetically modified food, the results of which have been reviewed in various journals [1], [2]. How these results affect regulation can be found through The Center for Environmental Risk Assessment, which hosts a GM Crop Database that can be searched by the public to find GMO crop history, style of modification, and regulation across the world [3]. Though knowing who to trust and what to believe regarding this topic is an ongoing battle, major health groups, including the American Medical Association and World Health Organization, have concluded from the research of independent groups worldwide that genetically modified foods are safe for consumers [4]. Regarding toxicity, this includes any dangers related to organ health, mutations, pregnancy and offspring, and potential for transfer of genes to the consumer.
GMO toxicity: fears and scientific analysis

After genetically modified foods were introduced in the United States a few decades ago, people independently reported toxic effects caused by GMOs. One example is an anti-GMO advocacy group called the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), which reported that rats fed a diet containing a GMO potato had virtually every organ system adversely affected after just ten days of feeding [5]. The IRT stated that the toxicity was the result of genetic modification techniques and not a specific case for that particular potato. They claimed the process of making the GMO caused it to be toxic and thus all GMOs were high risk for toxicity.

Scientists across the U.S. and the rest of the world have sought to rigorously test the assertions of the IRT and others to uncover any possible toxicity caused by GMOs. To this end, many different types of modifications in various crops have been tested, and the studies have found no evidence that GMOs cause organ toxicity or other adverse health effects. An example of this research is a study carried out on a type of GMO potato that was genetically modified to contain the bar gene. The product of the bar gene is an enzyme that can detoxify herbicides and thus protects the potato from herbicidal treatment.

In order to see if this GMO potato would have adverse effects on consumer health like those claimed by the IRT, a group of scientists at the National Institute of Toxicological Research in Seoul, Korea fed rats diets containing either GMO potato or non-GMO potato [6]. For each diet, they tracked male and female rats. To carefully analyze the rats’ health, a histopathological examination of tissues and organs was conducted after the rats died. Histopathology is the examination of organs for disease at the microscopic level (think pathologist doing a biopsy). Histopathological examinations of the reproductive organs, liver, kidneys, and spleen showed no differences between GMO-eating and non-GMO-eating animals.

Three years earlier, a separate group had found the same results for a GMO tomato and a GMO sweet pepper [7]. These researchers had split rats into four diet groups: non-GMO tomato, GMO tomato, non-GMO sweet pepper, and GMO sweet pepper. They fed the rats over 7,000 times the average human daily consumption of either GMO or non-GMO tomato or sweet pepper for 30 days and monitored their overall health. Finally, they carried out histopathology and again found no differences in the stomach, liver, heart, kidney, spleen, or reproductive organs of GMO versus non-GMO fed rats. Despite massive ingestion of GMO potato, tomato, or sweet pepper, these studies demonstrated no differences in the vitality or health of the animals, even at the microscopic level.

Experiments like these on humans would be completely unethical. Fortunately, prior to these studies years of work have demonstrated that rodents, like mice and rats, are acceptable models for humans, meaning rodent responses to drugs, chemicals, and foods can predict human response. Rat feeding studies like these, in which rats are fed a potential toxic item and monitored for adverse effects, are considered both specific and sensitive for monitoring toxicity of foods and widely used in the food regulation industry [1].
The test of time: GMOs and their effect on our offspring

Although scientists have been able to demonstrate that GMOs are not toxic to the animals that eat them, as described above and elsewhere, what about side effects being passed on to our next generations?

To discern whether GMO crops affect fertility or embryos during gestation, a group from South Dakota State University again turned to studies on rats. In this case, the rats were eating a type of GMO corn, more commonly known as Bt corn. Bt stands for Bacillus thuringiensis, a microbe that produces insecticidal endotoxin and has been used as a topical pesticide against insects since 1961 (see this article). To allow corn to directly generate this endotoxin, scientists introduced a gene from Bt into the genetic material (DNA) of corn.

To address buildup of toxicity over time, this group monitored the GMO-eating rats not only for the lifetime of one generation, but also three additional generations. For each generation, they tracked the fertility of parents and compared the health of the embryos from parents that ate Bt corn to those with parents that did not [8]. Toxic effects can arise in many places and in many ways, but some organs are more susceptible to damage than others, and monitoring them is a good readout for other difficult-to-see effects. Testes are considered a particularly sensitive organ for toxicity tests because of the high degree of cell divisions and thus high susceptibility to cellular or molecular toxins. To examine the affect of Bt corn on testicular health, the researchers tracked testicular development in fetal, postnatal, pubertal, and adult rats for all four generations. The group found no change in testicular health or litter sizes in any generation. Likewise, ingestion by pregnant mothers had no effect on fetal, postnatal, pubertal, or adult testicular development of her offspring.

Other groups have monitored toxicity over time as well. For example, the group studying the bar GMO potato also wanted to see if organs and reproductive health were sensitive to GMOs over long exposure times [5]. To do this, they examined the fertility and gestation periods of GMO-eating mothers compared to non-GMO-eating mothers for five generations. They tracked animal body weight, bone, eye, and thymus development, and general retardation. Like the studies on Bt corn, in all cases, they found no significant differences between the GMO potato and non-GMO potato diets, suggesting that there is no buildup or inheritance of toxicity, even over multiple generations.



Figure 1. Work from independent researchers has investigated various aspects of GMO safety, especially concerning consumer health and toxicity.
Can GMOs change our genes?

Concern has also surrounded the idea that genetically modified DNA would be unstable, causing damage (via unintentional mutations) not only to the crop, but also to whomever would consume it. Mutations in DNA are closely tied to cancer and other diseases, and thus mutagenic substances can have dire effects on human health. The creation of mutations, called mutagenesis, can be measured and compared to known mutation-causing agents and known safe compounds, allowing researchers to determine whether drugs, chemicals, and foods cause increased mutation rates. There are a variety of ways to measure mutagenicity, but the most traditional method is a process pioneered by Bruce Ames at the University of California in Berkeley. His method, now called the Ames test in his honor, is able to track increased rates of mutations in a living thing in response to some substance, like a chemical or food.

To directly test the ability of a GMO to cause mutations, a research group from the National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering in Beijing, China applied the Ames test to GMO tomatoes and GMO corn [8]. GMO tomatoes and corn express the viral coat protein of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). Expression of this coat protein confers resistance to CMV, which is the most broadly infectious virus of any known plant virus, thought to infect over 1,200 plant species from vegetable crops to ornamentals. The results of the Ames test demonstrated no relationship between GMO tomatoes or corn and mutations. They repeated their analysis using two additional methods for analyzing mutagenicity in mice and got the same result, allowing them to conclude that genetically modified DNA did not cause increased mutations in consumers. The modified DNA, like unmodified DNA, was not mutagenic.

Mutagenicity aside, there are also concerns surrounding the ability of the modified DNA to transfer to the DNA of whomever eats it or have other toxic side effects. Depending on the degree of processing of their foods, a given person will ingest between 0.1 and 1 g of DNA each day [9]; as such, DNA itself is regarded as safe by the FDA [10]. To determine if the DNA from GMO crops is as safe to consume as the DNA from traditional food sources, the International Life Sciences Institute reviewed the chemical characteristics, susceptibility to degradation, metabolic fate and allergenicity of GMO-DNA and found that, in all cases, GMO-DNA was completely indistinguishable from traditional DNA, and thus is no more likely to transfer to or be toxic to a human [9]. Consistent with this, the researchers working on the GMO potato attempted to isolate the bar gene from their GMO eating rats. Despite 5 generations of exposure to and ingestion of the GMO, the researchers were unable to detect the gene in the rats’ DNA [5].
A strong argument for GMO health safety

After more than 20 years of monitoring by countries and researchers around the world, many of the suspicions surrounding the effects of GMOs on organ health, our offspring, and our DNA have been addressed and tested (Figure 1). In the data discussed above, alongside many more studies not mentioned here, GMOs have been found to exhibit no toxicity, in one generation or across many. Though each new product will require careful analysis and assessment of safety, it appears that GMOs as a class are no more likely to be harmful than traditionally bred and grown food sources.

Megan L. Norris is a Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular, Cellular and Organismal Biology Program at Harvard University.

This article is part of the August 2015 Special Edition, Genetically Modified Organisms and Our Food.
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