Eat bread.
This may be the most controversial thing I’ve ever written: eating bread will not kill you. Apparently, thanks to the faddish Atkins diet, bread sales in the US are falling through the floor.
Consumption of bread plummeted in America in the past year with an estimated 40 per cent of Americans eating less than in 2002.… The average American eats 54lbs of bread a year, barely a third of the quantity consumed by the French and Italians. But the Italians and the French are not notably obese, Mr [Patrick] Davis [of the National Bread Leadership Council] said.
(*) There is nothing wrong with bread. (†) The obesity problem in America is due to our habit of gorging ourselves with all kinds of food. You can’t wolf down boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, gallons of sugar water, pounds and pounds of bacon, and then cut back on the bread and expect you’ll suddenly get fit.