Bruce Cameron

The Bruce Diet

W. Bruce Cameron

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007.

Recently, I was in the bookstore looking at diet books, thinking maybe it was time that I read one instead of going on a diet. I was astounded by the sheer number and variety of the things, and became energized by the promises of quick, painless weight loss because it gave me confidence that if I just worked at it, I could write my own diet book!

A lot of the weight-loss plans seemed to include language like this: “The Low-Lard Diet, when combined with good nutrition and exercise, can result i...