People struggling (and failing) with weight loss often ask me if my approach will work for them. My answer is, “There are no fat Chinese in China.” In other words, there are several billion people who are living in China on diets high in rice and vegetables (and exercising) and no one is overweight. Of course, all that changes when these Chinese migrate to your home town and start eating less rice and more meat, dairy, fats, and vegetable oils. These same people living in China have stresses, at least as painful as any of us suffer –poverty, infidelity, spousal abuse, loss of family members, etc. And with all these difficulties they still remain trim, active, and avoid diseases common to Westerners for a lifetime. This example does apply to you also in a therapeutic way. Consider, if you were to migrate to rural China, took a job working in the rice paddies, and ate with a local family, you would quickly lose weight and regain your health. So simple. Fortunately, you don’t have to ...