HOW TO TAKE 20 POUNDS OFF TOUR MAN - FOREWORD (PART 1)

I was pleased, flattered, and very surprised when Ms. Kalter asked me to write this foreword to her book. When I discovered that the subject of this tome was how to take weight off your husband, I was quite perplexed as well. For several years I have served as physician to Michael Gershman, the spouse of Ms. Kalter, and have been an abject failure in convincing him to lose weight. Despite all my efforts, the thin person screaming to be let out of his overweight body never made an appearance. Nevertheless, I consented to plow ahead and produce this foreword to a work designed to reduce the weight of American husbands.

Today, gourmet cooking and its natural by-product, eating, make up America's second fastest-growing pastime. Number one on the hit parade appears to be dieting. This has not always been so. I can remember when "children are starving in Africa," a phrase even more popular than "Where's the beef?" was used to encourage America's youth to consume all that was heaped on their plates. This Herculean effort produced over 200 million eaters in the United States and their number continued to grow into the 1950s. Following this proliferation, weight control and the diet industry began their ascendancy until now there are probably more dieters than eaters in these United States.

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