One more mention of Thanksgiving and then next week I’ll move on to other topics.  I do need to mention Thanksgiving food. Thanksgiving starts the “high holy days” of eating, the triple crown of overstuffing ourselves. 

 Back before heavily subsidized, mass produced fake food, real food was so scarce that all celebrations focused on overindulgence.   But an overindulgence happened once, maybe twice a year, with long periods of deprivation to normal eating in between. And don’t forget that everything on that Thanksgiving table was about as wholesome as you can get, although cooked – boxed stuffing mixes and frozen pumpkin pies were several hundred years in the future!

 
Today, our stores groan with over processed, fat and chemically-laden foods.  We’re encouraged to stuff ourselves with turkey and all the trimmings, then top off the meal with gobs of sugar-filled pie or other sweets. 

It’s not worth it. If you could see what this does to your body, you’d avoid overstuffing yourself for sure. Think about the drain in your kitchen sink. Even if you have a garbage disposal, would you stuff huge hunks of food down the pipes and pour grease on top just for a little added bonus? Not unless you want to pay for the plumber’s next Bermuda vacation, because that’s surely going to clog up those pipes and require major intervention.

 
Your body’s a heck of a lot more precious than the plumbing in your kitchen.  Sinks can be fixed and pipes replaced. You can’t replace your colon.  

So before reaching for those artery clogging, heart stopping “treats”…remember: it’s just one day, one meal. You’ve got a lot more to be thankful for than dinner rolls!