The World Health Organization says processed meats like bacon and cold cuts cause cancer in humans. A 50-gram portion, equivalent to 2 or 3 slices of bacon, increases your chance of getting colorectal cancer by 18 percent. And cheese and sugar are as addictive as a drug. (There goes pizza and cola.) And don’t get me started on hotdogs. Too late, I already got started on hotdogs (see previous post).
Oh dear. What can we eat?
Doctors say, “Just replace all those bad things with broccoli.” It’s a healthy food and will “help you maintain a healthy weight and a thinner waist line.” Well, of course it will. Because every time you want to eat, you’ll look at your bag of broccoli and you’ll decide you’re not really that hungry. “Broccoli again? I’ll eat later … maybe.”
My advice is: eat what makes you happy. Life is a terminal condition. No matter how healthy you try to be, you’re going to die. You might as well enjoy yourself on the way to your funeral. Just keep in mind this line from Andria by 2nd century B.C. Roman playwright Terence: “Moderation in all things.”
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