
Note on diet: Why is the USDA Food Pyramid our ideal? Because it
doesn't lend itself to fads or fanaticism.
It presents a full spectrum
of foods with the message of proportion: eat a balanced diet from the
various food
groups. This is not an Atkins meat and fat diet.
Every culture of the world has its favorite wholesome foods and when we
travel it is great to sit down and
enjoy a traditional meal with our hosts. In Sardinia, we might be invited to a
meal of pasta, fresh-roasted
pig or lamb, and vegetables from the host's
garden. In India, we might have flat bread with chickpeas
and vegetables, yogurt, and mango juice.
So, how is this a "Will-to-Power Diet"? It
banishes the diet scamsters and opens you to the culinary bounty
of the globe. (It's up to you to make sure your food intake is proportionate
to your energy expenditure.)

For his 50th Birthday, the Founder celebrates with a bottle of Geritol.
On the moor of Kasuga The rising of smoke is visible. The women surely Must have plucked lettuces on the spring moor and must be boiling them.
--Hitomaro
Manyo Shu 1879, trans. by Arthur Waley, "Japanese Poetry: The Uta", 1919