Treatment of this terrible disease—obesity—was left to large corporations like Weight Watchers, as well as various hucksters and charlatans mostly interested in peddling the latest weight-loss “miracle.” Doctors were not even remotely interested in nutrition. Instead, the medical profession seemed obsessed with finding and prescribing the next new drug: •You have type 2 diabetes? Here, let me give you a pill. •You have high blood pressure? Here, let me give you a pill. •You have high cholesterol? Here, let me give you a pill. •You have kidney disease? Here, let me give you a pill.
