Americans are nuts about food. I mean that in both senses of the word "nuts." We are crazy about food and obsessed with food. And, our commonly accepted beliefs, concepts and ways of judging and evaluating food most often are crazy, too. For the first sense, this book is about what you are looking for in food - not just what "nutrition" but what experience - why, what it means, and where you are likely to find it. And for that second sense of craziness, this book is a superstition-buster... "You Are What You Eat." Though cheapened by repetition, it is true - and this book is about both sides of that equation. Energetics of Food will help you take a good look at the "What You Eat" part and really see it - in fact, beyond "seeing" it, to Know what it is. And, it will help you take that food and hold it up as a mirror to yourself - the "You" side of the equation. It will even help you understand the part of that well-worn saying that nobody else has explained: Why you are what you eat! --- from book's back cover
John has been creating careers since he was a teenager. At age 17, he and a few friends started their own high school in Orange, New Jersey (called Changes, Inc. -- you can read about it in his book, The Zen of MLM). Before turning to business and journalism, he forged a successful career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. At 15 he was recipient of the 1969 BMI Awards to Student Composers and several New Jersey State grants for composition; his musical compositions were performed throughout the U.S. and his musical score for Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (written at age 13) was performed at the amphitheater in Delphi, Greece, where the play was originally premiered.
In 1986 John founded and wrote for Solstice, a journal on health, nutrition and environmental issues; his series on the climate crisis (yes, he was writing about this back in the eighties) was selected for reprint in Utne Reader. In 1992 John helped write and produce the underground bestseller The Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became the defining book in its industry and sold over one million copies in eight languages. During the 1990s, John built a multimillion-dollar sales organization of over 100,000 people. He was cofounder and senior editor of the Upline journal and editor in chief of Network Marketing Lifestyles and Networking Times.
John is coauthor with Bob Burg of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Go-Giver, Go-Givers Sell More, and It's Not About You. He also coauthored the New York Times bestseller Flash Foresight with Daniel Burrus, Take the Lead with Betsy Myers, The Secret Language of Money with David Krueger, M.D., and A Deadly Misunderstanding with Mark D. Siljander. His writing credits in the past few years also include The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith; The Vision Board Book by John Assaraf, The Next Millionaires by Paul Zane Pilzer, The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson, and The Business of the 21st Century by Robert Kiyosaki. In 2007 he published The Zen of MLM, a collection of his writings from the past two decades (available at www.zenofmlm.com).
His writing has earned the Nautilus Book Award, the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal), and Taiwan's Golden Book Award for Innovation.
He is married to Ana Gabriel Mann and considers himself the luckiest mann in the world. You can visit him at www.johndavidmann.com.
