This book contains more than the seven years of research, writing and frustration, which went into it. It contains my personal philosophy of life.

As a result, it will run counter to many misapprehensions generically termed "current wisdom" as it applies to just about every aspect of modern western civilization.

In fact, I fully anticipate that it will more than anger legions of powerful individuals, primarily because it could impact their pocketbooks. If so, this book will have served its purpose.

I intend it to make a great many people angry. If they are outraged, so much the better. For it is a condition of modern western civilization that nothing much gets accomplished until someone is angered. It seems we have become so ingrained with suppressing our anger that, too often, we allow untruths, wrong methods and outright lies to go unchallenged.

After all, ·anything worth having --- such as health and a better way of life --- is worth working for. If you approach this book with the understanding that it will demand a little "work" of you, the rewards will be all the sweeter to the taste.