Do you want to continue to live in the false world of dieting, where emotional pain is numbed, health risks are ignored, and false promises are made? Or do you want to take the red pill, as it were, and see the reality of a world in which food and eating don't dominate or take over your life?

'We must leave this place directly,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he refolded the note.

Wake up and smell the coffee, Dummy. You're a comfort station on a back-street detour. Send him on his way.

As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires...