~ now that we have heart disease, we are attempting to limit ourselves to a 2,030 calorie daily diet. trying to follow recommended serving sizes, and being hungry for two weeks straight, we wonder how the hell people survive on this. is everyone in the united states starving all the time, or are portions of ‘6 brussels sprouts’ and ‘1/4cup of raisins’ somehow sating everyone but us? either everybody suffers consistent hunger pangs, or americans are cheating on the absurd portion of ‘3/4 cup of pasta’ – that’s like 10 fusilli! are the nutritionists at the fda or whoever is in charge using dwarves or hobbits to determine servings, or are we doing something wrong? it doesn’t make any sense.

we are reminded of a theory that we once read about europeans in the middle ages being malnourished for hundreds of years; they had never known what it was to be full, so they just figured constant hunger was how they were supposed to feel, just like we will, until our heart craps out, any day now.

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