In 1972 the GREAT REBELLION was waning and I might have
despaired thinking that the only real revolution in town was the
Atkins Diet Revolution. Science as a human institution with a well
established SCIENTIFIC METHOD for finding relative -if not absolute
TRUTH -will be the final judge of the Atkins diet. But just look
around you at FAT America. Clearly ALL diet revolutions can claim
as much obvious success as the WAR ON POVERTY.
When I read that Dr. Atkins said that God wanted HIM to
eradicate obesity - with all due respect for the dear departed - I
smelled a charlatan. And the very circumstances of his death - falling
on ice - suggest that God Himself is helpless to fight gravity.
The American life style -not metabolic mutation - has given
us this epidemic of obesity. The other day I could not fail to notice
an obese man - whom I love as a person - voraciously wipe his dinner
plate of all visible gravy. I wanted to yell at him : " Please leave
just a little of that precious gravy for the GERMS ! "
Outside an Asian-American - they are usually thin when
they arrive here - with a middle aged gut was drinking a coke.
Pop psychologists write that for many people food is
LOVE. And we are loving ourselves to death !
Another Great Depression will cure obesity faster than any
Atkins Diet Revolution. Isn't a high protein diet elitist to begin
with ? Of course rice is cheaper than roast beef or lobster.
What does the good doctor tell fat poor people ? " Let
them eat cake ! "
despaired thinking that the only real revolution in town was the
Atkins Diet Revolution. Science as a human institution with a well
established SCIENTIFIC METHOD for finding relative -if not absolute
TRUTH -will be the final judge of the Atkins diet. But just look
around you at FAT America. Clearly ALL diet revolutions can claim
as much obvious success as the WAR ON POVERTY.
When I read that Dr. Atkins said that God wanted HIM to
eradicate obesity - with all due respect for the dear departed - I
smelled a charlatan. And the very circumstances of his death - falling
on ice - suggest that God Himself is helpless to fight gravity.
The American life style -not metabolic mutation - has given
us this epidemic of obesity. The other day I could not fail to notice
an obese man - whom I love as a person - voraciously wipe his dinner
plate of all visible gravy. I wanted to yell at him : " Please leave
just a little of that precious gravy for the GERMS ! "
Outside an Asian-American - they are usually thin when
they arrive here - with a middle aged gut was drinking a coke.
Pop psychologists write that for many people food is
LOVE. And we are loving ourselves to death !
Another Great Depression will cure obesity faster than any
Atkins Diet Revolution. Isn't a high protein diet elitist to begin
with ? Of course rice is cheaper than roast beef or lobster.
What does the good doctor tell fat poor people ? " Let
them eat cake ! "
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