Health Freak
What are we supposed to eat?
What is this — what, are you mad?
Using salt? No — salt is bad.
Sugar? Now, what are you thinking?
Sugar’s deadly — and you’re drinking
Coca Cola. Holy smoke.
Never catch me guzzling coke
All I drink is filtered water
and the other day, I bought a
juicer — you’ve not lived until
you’ve had beetroot juice and krill,
seaweed smoothie, olive oil,
veg grown in organic soil,
no, I never eat red meat
though it’s not as bad as wheat.
Funny, though — we’re all obese,
eating less, avoiding grease,
doing workouts at the gym -
nothing seems to make us slim.
Turn the clock back fifty years
eating didn’t hold such fears –
apple crumble, corned beef hash
shepherd’s pie with creamy mash,
hot-pot, malt-loaf, mutton stew,
cake and custard, trifle, you
cleared your plate and then you licked it
salt and sugar weren’t restricted.
Health advice? You simply ate;
no guidelines to set you straight
yet the term obesity
was unheard of — so maybe
so-called experts are mistaken.
Would you pass the eggs and bacon?
