Healthy Eating

Advice on healthy eating seems to change near every day,

As something new's discovered and the experts start to say

The foods they recommended in the past that you should eat,

No longer should be on your plate if you would hope to beat

The illnesses and aches and pains that come from eating junk,

Which makes one sometimes question just how much advice is bunk.

Butter once was much admired, along with milk and cream;

The came the experts who advised that they would never dream

Of eating dairy products; they were definitely all bad,

But now it seems not eating them was really just a fad.

Potatoes once were on the list of things you shouldn't buy,

Along with rice and pasta, though but few could tell you why,

Except that carbohydrates were supposed to make you fat,

And no-one conscious of their weight then wanted to be that.

But now potatoes are in vogue; they're good for you they say,

Full of all those vitamins that keep ill-health away.

Fats were also very bad not too long in the past,

But now they've made a comeback, and most experts if they're asked,

Think fats are now essential in a diet that will give

Everything that people need that they in health may live.

So maybe we should just ignore the experts in the press,

And to keep our weight in check, just eat a little less.