Oh, I didn't mean it like that. I think willpower is a very difficult thing. As someone whose struggled with weight issues for my entire adult life--and having the dieting lead to borderline eating disorders, and so on, I'd never fault anyone for having those kinds of problems.

No, I meant that people really aren't interested in trying new diets (and I don't mean weight loss diets). People are afraid to veer away from the "four food groups" type of diet, even though even the USDA or whoever has said that's not a good way to "balance" one's diet.

I also find it interesting that, in our culture, diets like Atkins become extremely popular to the point that even people not on the diet believing that carbs are bad, when all medical and scientific evidence is to the contrary, and, in fact, medical evidence shows that that type of diet is very, very bad for people for a whole lot of reasons.

People are so willing to believe that eating meat and fat is good for you, but they think vegetarians are strange and weird and likely to be unhealthy, in spite of all scientific evidence to the contrary.

It's all about as mind-boggling as people voting for G.W. even once, much less twice.