Caloric Accounts

Yes the campaigns have come and gone. But the fighting remains. Apparently cease fires don't exist during the holidays. And cliffs are not made for compromise. Nor lame ducks.
Maybe dead ducks... that try and fly right off the edge without consulting their good American neighbors..

My patients must lose weight prior to surgery. I give them a caloric budget so to speak. It's hard to maintain. Especially during the holidays.
Just like our trillion dollar deficit. No one likes a budget. Not even those folks down on Wall Street. I think they're called fat cats.
We go big or we go out and buy a new belt. On credit.

I try to explain calories in terms of income and payment plans. I don't know if that helps anyone out. It doesn't seem like a tangible education piece these days.
Defenses rise! Overdraft protection pops up! And it becomes a battleground. My education attacks. Barriers of rising food costs fire back.

"It's too expensive to eat healthy!!"

Patients have gone over their cliff. And yet still have a barrier.
They're over stretching their caloric bank accounts without spending time expending energy at the gym.

I find the "healthy food is too expensive" claim a complete and utter flop.
Yes, good food is pricey but good food is not always good for you. And vice versa.
Speaking of duck, it's not really that terrific for you. It might cost you an arm and a leg. and an artery.

While I was expending some of my surplus energy at the gym this Saturday, I read an article in Time from none other than Dr. Oz. And I really liked his message. He said, "Nutritionally speaking, there is a little difference between the farmer's market bounty and the humble brick from the freezer case. It's true for many other supermarket foods too. And in my view, dispelling the myths- that boutique foods are good, supermarket foods are suspect and you have to spend a lot to eat well- is critical to improving our nation's health."

This is not a message trying to criticize the foodie. But rather a message to the general public. A democratic message to all. Because while the partisan foodie may find Parisian gourmet cheese within his/her local food and caloric budget, it's hardly the message we want to send about vegetables. 
Because ultimately, if we could agree upon a bipartisan market, the more canned and frozen vegetables could lead to less healthcare reimbursements and maybe a little left over to spend on some portion controlled gourmet cheeses by all. 
 
People only see what they want to see. Barriers are for self preservation regardless of size. I mean, sides.

But even if we fall over the cliff, ideally the masses will be super fit and have stock piles of super foods that provide enough reserves to run back up that hill and knock some sense into the people who sit on the top.