Just One More Bite

The Atkins people would have us believe that Dr. Atkins' diet encourages us all to eat more like humankind was meant to eat, and indeed, the way our antecedents ate for thousands of years, up until the dawn of agriculture and the advent of cultivated and processed starches and sugars. The enemy is white flour, white sugar, white rice, white bread. Whoa, I see a theme developing here. Why, I wonder, the fascination with white food? The amazing thing is, to make the stuff at all palatable, you have to process some taste back into it. White sugar is nothing but raw sugar with all the good stuff taken out, so if you want brown sugar what you're really getting is white sugar with some molasses put back in, and that's why it's more expensive. White flour by itself is bland, bland, bland, which is why white bread has to have sugar and salt in it. I ate crocodile once in Africa, and it's probably the whitest meat you can find. And it's utterly tasteless. You have to eat it breaded and fried, or with sauce, to make it remotely edible. Ostrich is much better, a good red meat that makes sense. We'd all live a lot longer if we just gave up cars and became hunter-gatherers eating red and green food. That's why I've given up counting carbohydrates or calories, and just regulate my diet according to colors. The Rainbow Diet I call it. Want to buy my book?