The Philosopher's Diet

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Richard Watson. The Philosopher's Diet

INTRODUCTION

FAT

FOOD

ROUGHAGE

RUNNING

SEX

HOW TO LIVE

HOW TO DIE

CONCLUSION

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IN THIS BOOK I tell how to take off weight and keep it off. The book also embodies a philosophy of life. The weight program is the content of the book, the philosophy of life is its form.

I take it for granted that you have asked yourself in these trying times what it all means. What does it all mean? And why don't philosophers tell us? A few years ago my mother asked me these two questions. She was seventy, her children were grown and gone from home, and she and my father had nothing to do but tend their garden, read, and watch television. She had a son who was a professional philosopher. She wanted to know. Why wouldn't I tell her?

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The other major processed food is white flour. Like sugar, it has been available to common folk for only about a hundred years, and it consists pretty much of pure starch. Processors take out the germ and take off the skin so you don't get the vitamins, minerals, and roughage. Of course, white bread is fortified. But the point I'm leading up to is that even if you avoided sugar but continued to eat processed white flour — something almost impossible to do unless you eat flour from a bag with a spoon because everything made from white flour has sugar in it — you would still be laying on a lot of fat quickly because starch turns into sugar in the digestive process. Like sugar, white flour is always void of any nutritional element other than calories, lots of bare calories easily assimilated into your fat system.

Knock off all processed sugar and processed flour. This means spurning almost all processed foods because, as I say, almost all of them contain either sugar or white flour. Eat whole-grain breads. But be sure to read the labels. You will learn that even "wholewheat" bread sometimes contains white flour. Of course, wholegrain breads contain starch that turns to sugar, too, but at least they provide needed roughage at the same time. As for sugar, be advised that brown sugar, fruit sugar, turbino sugar, raw sugar, molasses, syrup, and honey are all sugar. Yes, I know honey is natural, but it is also processed. Bees process it: they extract it from sweet flower nectar and refine it into honey. Give up honey. And grit your teeth, because for some of you, the worst is yet to come.

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