I guess the point I was trying to make is you can just use the part about eating like the poor out and just have the low meat, low fat, high protein and high fiber statement. I have not have not read the book nor even heard of it before this but from my shallow understanding it smells of a fad diet sort of like paleolithic diet. But then again that could just be the sour cynic in me talking.

I will give the idea one thing. If you eat like a most non-western poor you should lose weight, calorie restriction will do that