Happy New Year

As many people enter 2007 vowing to eat better, I thought I would share our top 10 nutritional learnings from the last few months:

1. If one person in the house is on a high-fat diet, everyone in the house is on a high fat diet.
2. The hospital meal rejected by the pediatric patient should not be used as a supplemental snack for an adult.
3. Homemade brownies will add pounds to everyone who eats them, except to the person trying to gain weight.
4. Just because a menu is designed by the Food and Nutrition Department of a hospital doesn't mean it's healthy.
5. Weight is balanced across a family. As one family member loses a pound, the others must gain it. It is also acceptable for the other family members to gain some multiple of said pound.
6. Something akin to the Bermuda Triangle is formed between a person, a meal/snack and the tv. Food just disappears.
7. Half and Half is exactly what it says...half a pound in half a glass.
8. You cannot push a stroller up and down a hospital hallway long enough to burn the equivalent calories found in a Starbucks peppermint hot chocolate and cinnamon roll.
9. If a carrot makes you feel better in a stressful situation then a carrot cake will make you feel a lot better.
10. If you only wear sweat pants, eventually you will only fit into sweat pants.

As I prepare to enter the aforementioned Bermuda Triangle, I want to wish you all a happy and healthy 2007. We are confident that with God's help, great things are ahead for us in this new year.