Alex Kuczynski is the author of a new book, "Beauty Junkies: Under the Skin of the Cosmetic Surgery Industry" in which she exploits America's drive for fake perfection through plastic surgery.  

A growing community of plastic surgery patients indulged in 478,251 liposuction surgeries in 2004 and 334,052  breast augmentation surgeries.  The funny thing is that people like the fake shape best, the most rounded and unrealistic.

In a chapter entitled "The Breast", Kuczynski sums up the quest for surgical enhancement, particularly in this area, thus: "In the end, it all comes down to sex." Later she expands: "We are looking for love. And we will accept lust." In part she blames the rise of pornography: "On MTV's Real Life: Plastic Surgery, girls want to look like Pamela Anderson, not Kate Moss: this is porn talking."

Sure, sex sells - but what is wrong with people today that they are driven to such extreme fakeness?  What is the point of a fake life and what kind of genuinity or trustworthiness can be found in that? 

As I see it, Bowling Ball Breasts; the Trout Pout; the Wind Tunnel (severely backswept facial skin); the Kabuki Mask (all-Botox, all the time) are  the result of our anxious, sleepless, nervous, over stressed, over-fat, prescription drug medicine addicted society.

Take care of your body from the inside out.  A healthy diet and a sound exercise routine are your body's best friends, not "the knife."