Eat Dirt; Lose Weight? By Mrs Vera West

     This is an odd one; eating dirt could deal with the obesity crisis:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6493241/How-pill-mud-cure-obesity-soaking-fat-stop-body-absorbing-it.html

“Eating a side of a certain kind of dirt with your dinner might help to prevent obesity by flushing fat out of your system, new research suggests. Australian researchers found that obese rats that ate a certain kind of clay shed more pounds than those that were given a weight-loss drug, a new study reveals. 'Go eat dirt' is not a new phrase - or phenomenon. There are records of ancient Greeks who looked at the ground beneath their feet and decided, 'that looks like a snack.' And celebrities like Shailene Woodley and Elle Macphereson have brought this unlikely nutrition trend back from ancient times, eating clay for detoxes. In an unusual turn of events, the new scientific research suggests they might be onto something: an unlikely way to fight obesity.”

     I think we should call this the “North Korean communist diet,” since the people there seem to eat dirt for most meals, lacking food because the government is geared to making weapons of mass destruction. And, as poverty increasingly grips Australia, we too will see poor people everywhere digging around the way birds used to, before these featured creatures were all eaten.