Gastrotherapy

Light bulbs, ploughs, the wheel, computers

Penicillin and TV

Each has helped enhance our lives

In many ways you would agree

But it's surely my contention

If importance we should weigh

That the world's best invention

Is the tasty takeaway

Which things give us greatest pleasure,

music, dancing, art or sex,

exercise, the things we treasure?

Personal tastes are so complex

But to answer my own question

Most of us, I think, would say

It's the comfort of ingestion

That we'd plump for any day

To stay happy, it's been shown in

Lab research done on our brains

Dopamine and Serotonin

Must be surging through our veins

Hormones coming to the rescue

When Churchill's "black dog” is lurking

Life will get you down unless you

Get those old endorphins working

So when spirits need reviving

Don't resort to medication

Pay no heed to doctors orders

Ring the nearest eating station.

Adrenaline's the only answer

Just one forkful brings the rush

Mother Nature's life enhancer

Nothing pleases quite as much

Infinite delights await you

Pizzas, burgers or Chinese

Shish kebabs and spicy curries

Fish and Chips and mushy peas

Salads just don't cut the mustard

Processed food is what we crave

MSG will get the blood stirred

Minutes, in the microwave

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I really couldn't give a fig

Which bits of chicken, cow or pig

Are ending up in the concoction

As long as larging up's an option