And if you don't eat them, you have nothing to give up when the doctor says you must change your eating habits.

I actually had this happen. I had a very high result on a cholesterol test -- it had to be an error; never had that before or after, but the doctor insisted I see a dietician immediately.

For everything that nice woman said I should not eat, I had to tell her that I did not eat that, hadn't in decades, and would not. It was the same for everything I should eat-- check, check, check all the way down. The woman and my doctor were very upset by this; if I wasn't lying, surely I was dying!

Well, I wasn't dying. The next test came back with normal results. The doctor, having forgotten about my puzzling visit with the dietician, exclaimed "Good! The new diet worked!"

Sure, doc. It's been working for a lot of years now.