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Maximax67 Posted 5 years ago
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Please explain the meaning of this statement.

  

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maximax67 A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Please explain the meaning of this statement. It's a joke, a pun on "balance".

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maximax67A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Please explain the meaning of this statement.

It's a joke, a pun on "balance". We speak of a balanced diet, one that includes a variety of foods covering all the food groups—not too much of one thing. Although two cookies hardly constitute such a diet, if you hold one in each hand, they balance each other o