| But why all this
focus on food? One reason is that I have an unhealthy obsession
with it. The other is that we eat a hell of a lot of it, as shown
in this illustration from the July 1932 issue of
Popular Science. In 56 years, the average American eats a
ton and a half of beef, enough milk to swim, in and enough butter to...
I don't like to think about that. The
bismuth tablet hasn't been made that could cope with that amount of
tuck. This is why it isn't a good idea to eat it all at one meal
and get it out of the way. |