Since that landmark report from C. Everett Koop (and even before, depending on the circles you run in), Americans have been following one diet craze after another, not only in an attempt to drop the excess baggage most of us are carrying around but also as a way to find our way back to good health. Further, since that report, America's agribusiness industry and the advertising world have dramatically and disingenuously increased the false, distorted, misleading, and nonsensical information about the food sold in our grocery stores and served up in our fast-food restaurants. The result? We, as a country, are fatter than ever. And we're certainly no healthier.
The problem is that while diet is the key not only to slimness but also overall health and well-being, it has to be a diet that properly balances our body chemistry. But every one of the diets Americans have tried - including not just the "average American diet" but also such supposedly healthful regimens as low-fat diets, the food pyramid, the macrobiotic diet, the blood type diet, the metabolic type diet, high-protein and low carbohydrate diets, the raw food diet, and vegetarianism - creates wildly imbalanced body chemistry. Even if one way of eating gets rid of extra pounds (usually temporary) or lower cholesterol levels or lessen digestive troubles for some people, it does not fulfill the promise of simple good health. We're so used to our modern medical machinery, in fact, that good health seems anything but simple. I'm here to tell you: It is simple.
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