I have so many people to thank for helping me to discover, synthesize, and validate all the information I espouse, and I recognized my extended personal and academic families in Fat Chance. For this e-book, credit goes to Matt Chamberlain, my buddy and computer guru, for helping with the formatting and presentation of the data. But this e-book is purely, solely, and completely the brainchild of my wonderful wife, Julie K. Lustig, RN, MS, CPNP. Julie is a pediatric nurse practitioner, so she lives, eats, and sleeps medicine just like I do, and she’s a parent to our two wonderful (and nutritionally conscious) children, Miriam and Meredith, who spent long hours in several supermarkets taking pictures of labels and helping to collate the data. It truly was a family affair. Julie knows how important it is to get this information out to the public. She is not at all interested in notoriety, she would tell you she did nothing for this, and that this is not even the e-book she had envisioned. But trust me, this is the sum product of four months of every spare moment of her life, in the supermarket no less. A truly heroic effort. If it weren’t for her need to finish what she started, this e-book would never have seen the light of digital day. If and when you see her in the supermarket, a simple “thank you” will do.
—RHL