Idiot Proof Diet
It seems just about anyone can put the title “DIET” on a book these days and they’re automatically either a genius best seller that winds up on the barnesandnoble.com websites best seller list for, like, eons; or they’re relegated to the bottom of the bargain basement at Wal-Mart; there’s really little room in between. So the title “Idiot Proof Diet” is a little flip; but idiots are out there, one is born every minute. And the Idiot Proof Diet is one that would seem to me to be laden with pearls of wisdom that is the equivalent to a whole of common sense.
While a term like “idiot proof” is derogatory on many levels, there is a certain thing to be gleaned from it: there are a lot of behaviors we, as people, engage in which are counter intuitive to our best interest, unhealthy, and would do wise by us to be changed. So the term makes a lot of sense in that we need to keep our bodies tip top and take care of them, and the simplest way to do this is to change bad behavior.
Who created the idiot proof diet or who wrote the handbook entitled the idiot proof diet isn’t really as important as how relevant good common sense information has maintained itself for thousands of years. Eventually somewhere along the line, somebody realized that, say, eating sand was NOT a good idea; through the observance and honoring of history through our future good decisions, we employ the idiot proof guide to a better tomorrow.
An entire subdivision of enterprise was envisioned by some person who was obviously not an idiot; someone who saw the potential in things like idiot proof diet pasta or idiot proof book, idiot proof recipes, even the idiot proof diet blog and exploited them.
Any idiot can read a book but it takes someone not so slow to pull the pearls of wisdom in an otherwise bland text and apply it to their own lives. Dieting is something we grapple with our whole lives; the idiot proof diet is one book in a litany of signposts along the way.