Susan Powter Came to Town -Roger Mason

Susan Powter is one of the very few authors in the world who writes good books on how to eat well. You've probably saw her on TV years ago with her blond crew cut. Her best book is Stop the Insanity, which tells you how you can eat all the whole natural food you want, never be hungry, and stay slim. She is certainly living proof of what she writes and practices what she preaches. Her current book is The Politics of Stupid, which is really a book for women, however. She came to Wilmington, NC (2003) and spoke to a small group of about three dozen people in a tiny bookstore. Susan is a multimillionaire and does what she wants, so she was traveling around the country talking to small groups like this. Being wealthy gives sincere, devoted people like her the freedom to promote valid causes with no profit motive at all.

Susan was 45 years old then and had given birth to three children. If you don't look at her face (she does look good for her age) you'd think you were seeing a teenage girl in low rise hip-hugger jeans. She probably has about 20% body fat, which is very unusual for a woman her age, since women genetically must have higher body fat than men. She is funny, overly dramatic, irreverent, loud, entertaining, and curses like a sailor. She has all the energy in the world and moves like a professional dancer. Imagine a 45 year old mother of three that looks great in low rise hip-huggers and cork wedgie shoes just like a teenage girl. You can't fake things like this; only a healthy lifestyle produces results like this.

You simply cannot argue with anything she says. FAT MAKES YOU FAT is her theme. She is proof that you can eat all you want and be thin and trim if you just cut down on eating fat and animal foods like red meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products. She advises people to eat healthy, natural foods such as whole grains, beans, vegetables, fruits and salads. She also warns about refined grains, refined foods, and all the various sugars we eat. Her three sons all eat this way as well.

Susan generally despises medical doctors for a lot of very good reasons. She despised Robert Atkins and says shes glad he's dead and good riddance! She said that with no apology whatsoever since he killed so many people before he died. He fell over of a heart attack after a long history of a congestive heart condition. She hates the American Dairy Association, The Beef Council, and most of the other corporate food people. She hates the pharmaceutical corporations as well. She's an ex-Catholic who says some scathing things about her religious upbringing. Susan was a fat, very unhappy 260 pound housewife with two children. She couldn't pay the rent after her husband ran out on her. She taught herself nutrition and exercise and became a wealthy, famous author, lecturer and television personality. Quite an accomplishment, to say the least. This is real life proof you can make anything you want to out of your life no matter how poor or uneducated you are. She literally rose from poverty to national success with no help from anyone but herself. She uses the word "macrobiotic" a lot and talks about how much she loves to eat whole grains, beans, vegetables, fruits, salads and soups. She keeps making the point that it is FAT that makes you fat, not just food. We Americans eat over 40% saturated fat in our average diet. Refined, nutrition-less grains and 160 pounds of various sugars make our extreme fat intake even worse. We are overfed and undernourished and very, very overweight. America is literally the fattest nation on earth. She also talks quite a bit about exercise and says you need a half hour a day even if you just take a long walk.

She has a website www.susanpowteronline.com if you are interested in keeping up on her writings. This site really is more oriented to women though. Stop the Insanity is a basic book to read for anyone who wants to eat all the whole natural foods they want to, yet stay slim and never gain weight. She is one of the few diet authors who make sense among the countless pretenders you see on the book store shelves.