This Age of Eating - Time to Change

By James Larkin

The world is obsessed with eating. Never in history has humanity eaten so much. Consequently half of the world's population is grossly overweight. Illness and disease increases. Health costs soar and will rise more. It is time to change our attitude to food. Journalist James Larkin did - and it saved his life. Now he tells how to lose weight permanently - for life - and be healthier and happier.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Larkin
• Release date: Feb 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386939931

James Larkin

James Larkin has been a newspaper journalist and PR consultant for six decades. He has experience in Britain, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. He was born in 1938 in Liverpool, England and attended the Royal Grammar School, Colchester. He later was a law student at Grays Inn, London, before joining the Royal Air Force in 1957 in which he served in the Middle East (Iraq and Oman) and Singapore and Malaya (Malayan Emergency). He saw active service in the Oman Rebellion 1957, was on the last plane out at the Iraq Revolution 1958 and served in the Malay Emergency jungle war. He speaks basic Malay and French and smatterings of other languages. He is now living in Australia with his wife Saisunnee and twin sons James and Anthony. He is an active animal welfare supporter, vegetarian and envirionmentalist.  His blog is http://pet-patter.blogspot.com  and he is on Facebook and Twitter

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DEDICATION

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To my son Anthony Larkin

who was my losing weight

permanently partner and

who gave me great incentive

and  encouragement.

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Time for Change

Never in history have humans eaten so much, so frequently, so constantly and so incorrectly.

We all must eat but few of us study what we eat. We often just consume whatever we fancy and not what is good for us.

Many of our eating habits stem from childhood and our parents’ ways, later from social influences and peer

pressures and always from constant every day intense and glossy advertising by the food industry.

Fast food, takeaways and the mass of carb, fat, sugar, processed and chemical loaded items available has resulted in about half of modern humans becoming overweight.

We live in an Age of Over Eating, a time when the world seems obsessed with food and at a time when there was