Food For Thought

Diet, diet, diet, diet
Diet, diet, diet, diet
Diet, diet, diet, diet
Everyone should try it
Faithfully apply it
And build a great society
All good Americans
Before they leave their prams
Are counting calories
Or carbohydrate grams

Diet for the drinking man
The working man, the thinking man
Every man, a shrinking man
And woman, too, of course
Diet on the Air Force plan
The Army plan, the Navy plan
If you send a postcard
There's a plan that every coastguard will endorse

Diet, diet, diet, diet
Diet, diet, diet, diet
And never modify it
How can you deny it
Or say it lacks variety?
Half a cup of parsley
And some sunflower seeds
Contain more than you'd chance
The human body needs

Everybody's dieting
Dieting, dieting
Isn't it exciting to lose a bit of weight?
It's the new morality
In each locality
Reach for immortality
And push away your plate

Diet, diet, diet, diet
Away with all those little charts
You breakfast, dine, and sup with
We're fed right up with diets
And that's all we are fed up with

If you must be on a diet
Kindly keep it quiet
Or there's going to be
An anti-protein march
We'll all start a riot
Waving banners, down with diet
Give us fat, give us sugar
Give us starch, give us starch
Give us starch