Fighting Off the Covid-19
I'm 30 years past being a teenager, but up to about 47 or so I was blessed with a red-hot metabolism and got away with some pretty horrendous eating habits, such as: Age 12: Spend my paper route tip money on Popeye's biscuits ($0.35) or Chuckles ($0.31) at the candy store on my route. My sister and I did all sorts of hustling and cajoling for those tips and arranged the order of the route to hit Popeye's, the candy store, or the bakery on our way home. Age 15: We'd pick blueberries and freeze tens of pounds of them. While watching TV, I'd pull out out a quart bag of blueberries and a crap-load of sugar and hoover it all up on the couch. Age 16: Got a real job now! Candy, Coca-Cola (full sugar, mind you), Burger King and White Castle all the time. Age 18: The Navy- I can't believe how clueless I was. Clueless! The Navy didn't teach me to eat, but several fit friends starting bringing about awareness that a pack of Marlboros, a sleeve of Nutter Butters, yell