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