“Americans are downing close to 200 pounds of meat, poultry and fish per capita per year (dairy and eggs are separate, and hardly insignificant), an increase of 50 pounds per person from 50 years ago.”

(See, I’m not sold on lack of exercise – that doesn’t cause the average person to eat 50 more pounds of meat/poultry/fish per year.)

Perhaps he wrote what he knows…he just don’t know enough to write more about this part? (There’s also the huge, Almighty Problem in that People Do Not Want To Be Told What To Eat.)

“…he makes little to no mention of exercising more…I am of the firm belief that it is as much our couch-potato/desk-jockey lifestyle which contributes to our expanding waistlines and declining health as it is the typical processed crap food American diet.”

I’m not. People were slothful in the 1960s but were mostly not obese or diabetic. But food changed more and more in the 1970s, with HFCS and Fast Food restaurants coming into play along with stepped-up marketing. Trans fat kicked up more. People stopped cooking. PEOPLE STOPPED COOKING.

Cooking with real food, to me, is much more important than exercise. (And just think about the bottom 80% who exercise regularly and are still gaining weight.)

Excellent review, as always.

Now, after reading the article, if the reader wants more of the same, they can read the book.

But I see no reason to suggest someone read a book which gives the same information that is available for free by the same author that is better written in another venue.

But that’s just me.