The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, by Nina Teicholz, Simon & Schuster, © 2014, 479 pp. An unexpected consequence of the fall of the U.S.S.R. was the number of ordinary citizens who poured out of Russian apartments to topple statues of Lenin, the most visible symbols of 70 years of oppression by the Soviet state. In spite of my years, my fantasy is someday to see angry American citizens emerging to destroy whichever of the countless symbols of the oppressive U.S. government they deem to be most objectionable. Based on the narrative … Continue reading Americans Are Unhealthy