TY - JOUR T1 - Book review: Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach you About Diet, Thrift and Going Green JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 956 LP - 956 DO - 10.3399/bjgp09X473321 VL - 59 IS - 569 AU - Lesley Morrison Y1 - 2009/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/59/569/956.1.abstract N2 - Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach you About Diet, Thrift and Going Green Patricia Nicol. Chatto and Windus 2009 288 £12.99 9780701182403 The Garden Cottage Diaries My Year in the Eighteenth Century Fiona J Houston. Saraband 2009 224 £17.95 9781887354660 I recently watched the brilliant short documentary, ‘The Story of Stuff’ (www.storyofstuff.com), about how we plunder natural resources, manufacture stuff, distribute it, consume it, then have the problem of waste stuff.We can feel like victims of the cycle of consumerism with the principle of planned obsolescence governing our producing and buying habits. Yet, if we are going to tackle global warming and the planet is to survive, we need to change our attitudes towards ‘stuff’. Our time is limited but, as Phil Hanlon, professor of public health in Glasgow, says, in this crisis situation, perhaps people will respond as they did in the crisis of the blitz and … ER -