Healthy Reading

What do you do when your small sister begins reading health books after a long period of rebelling against understanding anything using letters? Listen, I guess, and find the humour.


"KOALA! Guess what this says! It says we can't leave food too long in the frigerator, cause it loses all or, well some of its Vite-a-mihn SEE!"

"KOALA! Listen! It says, 'Good posture makes you feel better, grow well, and have straight bones.' See, Koala, how you're supposed to sit? Shoulders back, stomach in, head straight, feet flat on the floor, and your back all the way back on your chair. See?"

"KOALA! This book says that most cereal has lots of sugar in, and that's NOT healthy! We should eat more healtier cereals."

"KOALA! Do you know that 'brown or whole grain cereals are better for you than white'?"

"KOALA! If you eat fats and oils, you stay more warmer! It says it. Fats and oils makes our bodies warm!"

"KOALA! If you eat too much fats and oils, it stores them in your body as FAT! It says it in this book! And I believe it!"

"KOALA! If the fat stores in your body, you have to do more work to get rid of it."

"KOALA! It says 'Here are some good manners, "Come to the table when you're called, say please and thankyou, and thank God for your food."' And do you know that we should keep our napkins on our lap?"

"KOALA! You'll never guess. This says that our body RELAXES when we sleep! We should go to bed at a good time so we can get enough sleep and our bodies can get strong and healthy."

"KOALA! This books said that we shouldn't eat right before we go to bed, or it messes up our di-GES-chun. And did you know that we shouldn't gobble down our food all at once? If we eat it nice and slow, then we're healthy!"



This Little Vibrant One finished off her reading with following the list of excercizes in the book. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten - other leg! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten - other leg!"