The thing about broccoli

I'm always fascinatingly and strangely amused, yet horrified, by people's notions that by simply adding broccoli to a dish it becomes healthy.

As I was preparing my annual rant on resolutions, I decided instead to contemplate why it is that according to some polls upwards of 90 percent of people who make resolutions will not stick to them. I've come to the conclusion that it is two key factors that impede people: (1) they do not make smart, strategic goals but lofty hard to conceive of ideals that belong to a massive media machine and (2) they just add broccoli.

Really the problem for (2) comes from (1), but not entirely. I know perfectly reasonable, sound minded people who don't really make resolutions, yet, they just add a few pieces of broccoli to their ham, cheese and macaroni and call it healthy. Or, they toss a few pieces of broccoli onto their baked potato with sour cream, cheese and bacon and think they are having a healthy lunch. My favorite, and actually one of my real personal favorites, is broccoli on pizza... but I do not consider it a healthy choice.