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A Life Unburdened: Getting Over Weight and Getting On With My Life
by Richard Morris
Miralibri Press
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 who’s failed at all the diets stops
blaming his lack of willpower and figures out that all the expert advice
on dieting is wrong? You get a truly practical road map to successful
weight loss.
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. Richard Morris 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. Morris 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.
Morris 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?
Morris 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 Richard’s
wife Mary 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 Reviewer
 Sally
Fallon is the author of
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct
Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched,
thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal
fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary
for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection
from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to
write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the
subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation
and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk,
Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community
activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter,
cream, eggs and meat.
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