While browsing at Barnes and Nobles

OK, so last Friday night, I was in the mood to snoop around at a bookstore.

I don't do this that often. I used to be obsessed with bookstores, and when we'd go to New York every Christmas to visit my wife's family, I spent huge amounts of time (and no small amounts of money) in obscure NYC bookstores, and my wife would grumble about how much space my books took up.

But online book shopping has done something to me. I just don't do the physical bookstore thing very often. But occasionally, like a dog returning to his vomit (see 2 Peter 2:22) I want to go visit one, and my wife had to be some place and nobody else was around, so I went to the Barnes and Nobles here in town.

And I found a fascinating book, dealing with the Shangri-La diet.

In case you haven't heard about this, I suspect this will be the next fad diet, coming hard on the heels of Atkins and others.

And like Atkins, it sounds like this one works. (And, by the way, despite what some idiots say, Atkins not only works, but it's good for you. I've got friends who've been on it for years, complete with low cholesterol).

The point of this diet (and it's almost not a diet) is to lower your hunger point. The author of the book on the diet says that we eat like cavemen, meaning that when we see food, we start eating, as if we were going to be without food for a long time.

I don't agree with his premise (the whole idea of us having been "cavemen", but that's for another time) but given widespread availability of cheap food, it's no wonder that we eat. And a lot.

So, far starters, check out the author's blog. I'll be talking more about this later on:

http://www.blog.sethroberts.net