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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote 2012-02-08 04:52 pm (UTC)

I spent the first half of this book thinking hey, he's talking about health, not weight. That's refreshing! Until I realized that to him, they're interchangeable, with very little exception.

There's also this thing related to the smugness you're talking about. He says correctly that part of the chane in the way we eat is because our moms aren't deciding what we eat like they used to. Presumably when they stayed at home and cooked fresh every night. And I'm like 'okay, yes, likely true. But you really, really can't stop there, because it has to be obvious to you that there's a problem in your system if changing social roles for women outside the home means we don't have time for it.'

I dunno. He makes a whole lot of sense, in a 'I live two blocks from a farmer's market' way. Just, the access stufff...

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