THE PIZZA DIET

The doctoral candidate had gotten up at five thirty to be fully ready for lectures at nine. What was for breakfast? Cold pizza from two nights ago (buy the extra large so that you can eat for a week). He reached into the refrigerator of his unheated industrial district apartment with the peeling wallpaper, chewed pensively, and stared into the airwell. There was a coyote living at the bottom, he threw the crust in to feed the beast. While water heated for his insta-coffee he enjoyed a Camel cigarette. More doctors smoked Camels than any other cigarette, as was proven in a repeated national survey. Doctors in ALL branches of medicine, in every part of the country, were asked "what cigarette do YOU smoke, doctor?" And not surprisingly, more doctors preferred the taste of Camels over any other smoke.

He had tried Camels for a month, to see what a smooth, rich tasting cigarette meant for his tobacco pleasure. Well, it went well with insta-coffee. Very well. He practically lived off leftover pizza and insta-coffee.

He had exhausted the trust fund set aside for college within the first year. Lines of coke add up. The intervening years had been bleak. He had tried snorting lines of Folgers for a while.

Late night parties in the morgue are depressing when you are the only one dancing.
Because you are the only in the place who can.

Maybe they're shy? Maybe they don't know all the moves?

Despite showing them, they remain stiff and unresponsive.

You begin to think that perhaps, instead of oncology, you should go into dietary medicine. You've realized that adding sliced pineapple to pizza is sound nutritionally. It adds fibre and vegetable matter, so essential for gut health and peristalsis at the beginning of the day. That squirt of hot sauce is good too, because hot chilies are the richest source of vitamin C in the plant kingdom. Necessary for the body's immunity and resistance to disease. Anchovies are fish, which are also excellent. Fish is rich in protein, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins D and B12, and minerals like iodine, selenium, and phosphorus.


And we all know about tomatoes, right?


For the life of you, you cannot understand how breakfast burritos caught on. Pizza is the way to go, tastes better on the second or third day. And coffee is rich in antioxidants, has protective actions on the liver, and is good for brain health.
Plus your kidneys will thank you.



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