Coffee Table Declarations
Monday, November 17, 2003
I will not get sick, I will not get sick. This is my mantra. I have been sitting here drinking juice that contains echinacea and something called astragalus. I've been chewing Vitamin C tablets by the dozen. I am a firm believer in natural remedies. I have been floating in the limbo between sick and well all weekend and I am fighting tooth and nail for the victory of health.
In a coincidental turn of events, I have just started reading this book. It told me I should eat fresh salmon once a week, fresh broccoli twice a week, and avoid all food products containing partially hydrogenated anything.
Proactively, I spent my weekly grocery shopping trip at one of those health food stores yesterday and was shocked and alarmed to arrive at the cash register and find that I owed an obscene amount of money. Pretty much triple what I might spend on groceries in a normal week. Why does health food cost so much? It doesn't seem quite fair does it? I mean, only rich people get to be heathy and the rest of us poor slobs have to be poor AND malnourished??
Well, I may be broke, but I will be healthy. Last night I forcefed myself salmon (yuck!) and the meals I will be consuming this week, I am proud to annouce, will contain absolutely no partially hydrogenated substances. I better live it up because next week it's back to the "You-Can't-Afford-To-Be-Healthy-And-We-Don't-Care" Grocery Store for me.
In a coincidental turn of events, I have just started reading this book. It told me I should eat fresh salmon once a week, fresh broccoli twice a week, and avoid all food products containing partially hydrogenated anything.
Proactively, I spent my weekly grocery shopping trip at one of those health food stores yesterday and was shocked and alarmed to arrive at the cash register and find that I owed an obscene amount of money. Pretty much triple what I might spend on groceries in a normal week. Why does health food cost so much? It doesn't seem quite fair does it? I mean, only rich people get to be heathy and the rest of us poor slobs have to be poor AND malnourished??
Well, I may be broke, but I will be healthy. Last night I forcefed myself salmon (yuck!) and the meals I will be consuming this week, I am proud to annouce, will contain absolutely no partially hydrogenated substances. I better live it up because next week it's back to the "You-Can't-Afford-To-Be-Healthy-And-We-Don't-Care" Grocery Store for me.
