Maybe your teenagers no longer believe in Santa Claus, but I assure you: Not only is he alive, I believe that we have evidence that he works for the drug industry!
Psshaww! you say. Yet another rant from that kook, Davis. Who can he pick on next? What other imagined "conspiracies" can he uncover?
Let me recount the evidence and I'll let you decide how damning it all is:
--Christmas is a culture of excess, overeating, celebration: Cookies, candy canes, pie, chocolate, egg nog, more cookies . . . A virtual wheat and sugar frenzy!
--Wheat and sugars make us diabetic!
--What does a diabetic look like? How about big protuberant abdomen, florid cheeks, baggy eyes (from sleep apnea)? The red outfit and beard is optional, of course. Could you think of a better representation of what happens to a person when they eat goodies all the time?
I therefore submit that Santa Claus is at the root of a campaign to cultivate diabetes! Diabetes: a growth industry that is raking in billions of dollars for the drug companies!
I'd bet that Mr. Claus would agree with the dietary advice dispensed by the folks at the American Diabetes Association website:
A place to start is at about 45-60 grams of carbohydrate at a meal. You may need more or less carbohydrate at meals depending on how you manage your diabetes.
Eat more carbohydrates, get fatter in the abdomen, require more medication to keep sugar low. Then start over: eat more carbohydrates, get fatter, more medicines. Kaching!
"You may need more?" Personally, I'd be rendered comatose and helpless if I indulged in such carbohydrate gluttony.
If Mr. Claus were, instead, interested in our health and keeping us non -diabetic, Christmas would be a time for pistachios, almonds, dark chocolates, and tea.
You want health advice? Don't ask Santa Claus!