I’m sure you’re aware of the link between excess fat and heart disease, excess fat and strokes, excess fat and cancer; in fact, excess fat and all kinds of diseases.

Imagine trying to work in an office filled with thick, gooey fat. It’s all over your desk, in your drawers, oozing out of the walls, falling from the ceiling. It’s packed so thickly over your telephone receiver that you can’t hear what your caller is saying. You can’t even write, because your papers are covered. You can barely wade through the gunk piled two feet high in the hallway, and when you open the door to the adjoining office you’re buried in an avalanche of glop.

How much constructive work could you accomplish in such an environment? None. You’d spend all your time trying to clean up, to get the junk out of there before it destroys the office, and you along with it. How much health-building work can your

“doctor within” do if his workplace—your body—is literally covered with fat? If the fat has clogged up and closed your arteries, your “doctor within” can’t even get basic nourishment, let alone try to build good health.

We do need fat in our diet, but only in small amounts. Inside the body, a small amount of fat is useful for storing energy, carrying fat-soluble substances through the watery bloodstream, protecting and insulating us. Fat is like protein, in that a little bit is good, but too much is dangerous. Unfortunately, the S.A.D. is absolutely loaded with fat. And fat contributes to or exacerbates an amazing number of health problems. The “cancers of affluence’—cancers of the breast, colon and rectum, prostate, pancreas, ovaries and uterus—give gravestone testimony to the deadliness of dietary fat. So, do your “doctor within” a favor: keep your fat intake as low as possible.

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