Descriere The Benjamin Franklin diet

Think you know about Founding Father Benjamin Franklin? Think again. If you asked an assortment of people what they thought of a book called The Benjamin Franklin Diet, chances are someone would say, “Wasn’t he fat? Why would I take diet advice from a fat man?” In her genuinely groundbreaking new book on Ben Franklin’s superb habits for health and longevity, author Kelly Wright points out there’s a lot about Franklin you probably don’t know, starting with the fact that people’s firmly implanted image of him as obese is not at all representative. This misleading picture is primarily due to the famous portrait painted in Franklin’s mid-seventies when he was living (and eating rich food) in France. The more accurate portrait of Franklin on the front cover of this book was painted when the remarkably gifted farther of his country—a publisher, statesman, diplomat, scientist, inventor and all-around original creative thinker, a true Renaissance man—was forty-five years old and had a tall, lean, muscular physique, t