THE LAST DIET

What's for dinner?  Is dinner 'junk' food on the run?  Do you just eat something and pop a supplement or do you consider fiber, folic acid, vitamin C, beta carotene, vitamin E, zinc, etc.  If you don't take supplements does your daily diet have the Recommended Daily Allowance?  What about a vegetarian diet, antioxidants, low fat foods, low cholesterol foods, whole grains, natural foods, organically grown vegetables, etc.  Do you think you have problems with natural toxins, food allergies, or food intolerances?  Confused?

Today with all the information, scientific studies, medical conclusions, and research, the average person is left with the idea that all this is just cocktail trivia to be taken with a glass of wine which research says is good for you in moderation.  There are so many things to consider in diet that even researchers can become confused as to what is important.  There is disagreement on many points.  Where does all this end? 

There is just too much information and too many facts to understand what the best diet to follow is.  Order and organization, when applied to all these dietary facts leads to a diet that is far different from what many modern researchers say is best. 

When I was in high school one of the books I came across was Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.  This book didn't stun my mind the way it had spurred ecological thinking in the general population. At that time I understood it in an entirely different light.  The ideas it presented interested me more and more.  Humans were using technologies or man made toxins indiscriminately without understanding natural food chains or how the web of life was interconnected as a whole.  Bit by bit, I learned about working ecosystems and how we are interdependent upon other life on this planet. 

Little did I suspect that it would lead to this book about how humans have ignored ecology in pursuit of a perfect diet.  Only a few suspect that this ignorance of the ecology of human diet leads to millions of dollars of wasted medicine. 

I have an idea that one day my book will inspire someone.  One girl who read James Herriot's books became a veterinarian and helped tremendously on this book.  Someone may walk up to me and say that my book inspired them.

This book is for the women in science who make a difference. Women like Dr. Rachel Carson, Dr.Dian Fosey, Dr Doris Rapp and Dr. Sharon Crowell-Davis.