A Fat Man Wakes Up

[Guest guest]

A Life Unburdened: Getting Over Weight and Getting On With My Life by

a BOOK REVIEW By Sally Fallon

What happens when a fat man who should have been a stand-up comic loses over 150

pounds and then writes about it? You get a book that is funny, sad, insightful,

interesting,

readable and inspirational. What happens when a fat man wakes up to the fact

that the

only way to achieve real health is to eat real food? You get stunning, inspiring

life-style

transformation.

A Life Unburdened is a myth-breaker. demolishes them one after

one: the

myth that eating fat makes you fat, the myth that no food is better than any

other food,

the myth that junk food in moderation won't hurt you, the myth that all calories

are the

same, the myth that no one has time to cook, the myth that losing weight will

automatically make you healthy, the myth that exercise will cure disease.

sheds

myths the way he has shed pounds, emerging as a new man from the fog of

misinformation.

His program is simple. . . and absolutely radical: don't eat processed food.

Ever. Eat only

real food and only when you have prepared it yourself. And what is real food?

All the foods

the experts have told us not to eat: butter, lard, beef, whole raw milk, eggs,

liver, coconut,

cream.

His message is absolutely liberating: the only way to lose weight and be healthy

is to eat

foods that are satisfying. Satisfying foods are foods that contain the F

word-fat, old-

fashioned fats, which our ancestors ate. Satisfying foods are foods prepared the

way your

grandmother made them, with soup bones and love. Satisfying foods are foods that

give

your body what it needs, so you're not hungry an hour later. Satisfying foods

grow in

gardens nearby, not monocropped furrows in far-off places. Satisfying foods come

from

animals that live outdoors, not in factories. Satisfying foods have not been

adulterated,

embalmed, emulsified, sterilized, pasteurized, irradiated, manipulated or

standardized.

arrives at his breathtaking epiphany by asking the right questions. Why

were the

members of his family getting fatter, and fatter sooner, with each generation?

Why were

they dying so young when his grandparents lived so long? Why did he keep hearing

that

food should be convenient? Why did dieting make him depressed and lethargic? Why

did

the " experts, " the MDs, PhDs and RDs, keep promoting the same dietary advice

when it

obviously was not working?

does not have a bunch of letters after his name but he has a different

kind of

credentials-he's been there, been in the trenches. He has lived the physical and

emotional agony of being fat. He has lost weight on all the diets-before gaining

it back

and more. And he has achieved the supreme accomplishment of transforming himself

from an obese to a normal man by making one revolutionary change: real food

instead of

processed food. Everything else followed from there-slow and steady weight loss,

a

rebirth of optimism, the end to cravings, resolution of health problems,

enthusiasm for

exercise, new goals, improved family life, hope for the future.

A Life Unburdened is more than just a diet book, it is a saga, and more than a

saga of one

man only, but of a couple and a family, a saga in which the discerning and

supportive role

of 's wife emerges as an example of quiet heroics. It is a modern

epic of self-

transformation, one that unfolds with suspense and drama, as one suburban family

replaces commercialism with wise principles. It begins in despair and ends in

triumph.

Read, learn and enjoy!

About the Author...

Sally Fallon is founding president of the Weston A Price Foundation, a

non-profit nutrition

education foundation with over 400 local chapters and 9000 members. She is also

the

founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, which has as its goal universal access to

clean raw

milk from pasture-fed animals. Author of the best-selling cookbook Nourishing

Traditions and also of Eat Fat Lose Fat (Penguin), both with G. Enig, Phd,

Sally has a

encyclopedic knowledge of modern nutritional science as well as ancient food

ways. Her

grasp on the work of Weston Price is breath taking and her passion for health

freedom,

inspiring. In each edition of Nourished Magazine Sally answers your questions

about

nutrition, health, food and medical politics.