I was about to turn sixty years old, and I had been telling family and friends that I was going to live to 120. That is what some insurance actuaries were saying. So something needed to change if I did not want to end up dribbling in a room full of strangers in my mid-nineties. Or worse, not speaking to the intensive care unit nurse at the age of sixty-five due to a cardiovascular "incident" Bookstores house thousands of diet books, and people buy them to the tune of billions of dollars each year. Yet, the public continues to get unhealthier and fatter. I was just officially overweight and...