Key Takeaways:

• A follow-up to Deutsch’s earlier satire on health-food culture, expanding his critique into the 1970s.
• Skewers fad diets, miracle cures, and charismatic “food gurus,” highlighting how hopes and fears drive pseudoscience.
• Functions as both a skeptical consumer guide and an inadvertent snapshot of how big, varied, and eccentric the health-food world had become.