CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, June 21, 2004 -
Fewer diet movements have caught the imagination or stirred as much emotional debate as the Atkins diet has in America.
Today's generation of Catholics is being infuenced by a much more nourishing
diet than was available in the 1970s, and takes for granted the good things available: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, World Youth Day, St JPII's Theology of the Body, the New
Movements, Veritatis Splendor, Benedict XVI's teaching on the relationship between faith and reason, and his emphasis on truth, beauty and a personal encounter with Christ, to name just a
few.
Sisson's approach is commendable in its simplicity — he boils the complexities of
diet, exercise, and
movement down to a
few simple and memorable «laws», based on those instinctively observed by our distant ancestors: