questions, comments, and challenges from
time to time, so you’d better be prepared. If
we asked you right now, “Why aren’t you
eating grains?” how many of you would have
an answer on the tips of your tongues? Your
answer could range from the fact that grain
proteins are potentially inflammatory to the
fact that when you gave up bread your
stomach lost its bloat—anything from
scientific data to personal experience. The
point is, you’d better have an answer, and it
can’t just be, “Because Dallas and Melissa
said so.” (Although we do like that answer.)
So, do your homework. Be able to explain
why you don’t eat certain foods. Memorize
our Web address. Prepare some remarks based
on your own experience. Just don’t show up
empty-handed, because if you do, you’ll lose
any chance you may have had to get the other
party to buy in. And if that other party is your
mom, who shops for all the family’s food;
your husband, who cooks all the food; or your