Six Weeks to OMG is the latest fad diet book responsible for
recent headlines proclaiming ‘Skipping breakfast is good for you’ and ‘Broccoli
carbs are bad’.
However, Fulton
has been praised for the direct honesty of his book’s subtitle: Get skinnier
than all your friends, cutting to the vain core of the reason behind most of
the public’s rollercoaster relationship with food and fitness.
Whether you buy into his ethos or agree with his diet tips or
not, Fulton has
successfully created a monster, prompting reputable publications to insist
their reporters follow his regime and report back, as well as feeding his own
buzz via an apparently self-monitored blogsite: www.veniceafulton.com
He may have shot himself in the foot here though, as his
website dishes out, what I took to be the most useful advice in the book, for
free. A recent post explains why the nutritionist and fitness
expert believes ‘ordinary’ doctors are not as qualified to give dietary advice
and another confidently assures that, like all ‘truths’, his manifesto will be
subjected to German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer’s, stages of acceptance: First,
they’re ridiculed. Second, they’re violently opposed. And third,
they become accepted as the new way.
What Six Weeks to OMG does deserve, is credit for presenting
healthy living guidance in a new way.
We’re bored of reading pages of meal plans and tricep
exercises and need someone like Fulton
to come trailblazing through like Atkins did a decade ago.
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