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EAT FAT is a "postmodern diet book," as Klein puts it (employing a rather eccentric definition of postmodern, which seems roughly to amount to "counterintuitive"): an encomium to corpulence and an excoriation of all the industries that encourage you to be skinny.
And the tired excoriation of the press: "To my detractors and the naysayers out there, otherwise known as "talking heads," or "kibitzers," I say, bah humbug!"