D.L. Stewart web exclusive: What to eat is an age-old question

Lifestyles
By D.L. Stewart
March 10, 2015
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The nutrition nannies never quit.

Hard on the heels of a recent bulletin from something called the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee about what we should and shouldn’t eat, comes another alarm last week from the World Health Organization about the horrors of sugar. There’s too much of it in our soup, our bread, our cereal, our peanut butter and even in our yogurt, WHO warns. If we don’t stop eating all those things immediately we’re all going to get even fatter and our teeth will fall out.

In reaction to stories like those, faithful reader and self-confessed peanut butter eater Dale L. recommends reading the following poem, which is variously attributed to Ogden Nash or the equally talented Anonymous:

“Methuselah ate what he found on his plate,

“And never, as people do now,

“Did he note the amount of the calorie count.

“He ate it because it was chow.

“He wasn’t disturbed as at dinner he sat,

“Devouring a roast or a pie,

“To think it was lacking in granular fat

“Or a couple of vitamins shy.

“He cheerfully chewed each species of food,

“Unmindful of troubles or fears

“Lest his health might be hurt by some fancy dessert,

“And he lived over 900 years.”

For the record, Methuselah is believed to have lived to the age of 969. He probably could have made it to 1,000 if he’d cut down on his peanut butter.

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