HEALTHY DIET: a sonnet--Award Winner

HEALTHY DIET: a sonnet


Dieting may be fun, I do not know.
But it is often a necessity.
Obesity does make a man’s life slow
And is often quite a calamity.

Can we avoid amassing calories?
Yes, if we control the food that we eat.
We must, too, calories in fat defreeze
By exercising, raising body heat.

Cut down all food that is but intruder
In nature’s scheme, tasty superlatives.
In one fell sweep this will cut all sugar
And fat and all synthetic additives.

Though such diet may not be too tasty,
It sure will prevent an exit hasty.


• Winner in the “Let's Lighten Up, WDC” CONTEST, "Invalid Item" , November 2007 round.


M C Gupta, M.D.
10 November 2007