Other books you might want to read include "Meat Three Times a Day." While it is not a diet book, the authors recomend a pre-industrial American diet - which meant eating meat in large amounds with little or no grains, with an apple being considered a rich dessert. My mom went AWOM (absent without meat) this weekend and packed salads for my lunch, so perhaps I am a little overevangalistic today. Still, meat is the essence of human life. It's value cannot be overstressed unless you are talking to someone suffering from Kratar-Willis disorder (lack of lack of hunger; a sever nuerological disorder).