oily logic

the benefits of skim-milk are obscure
unseen in epidemiology
but those who like to take their snake-oil pure
insist their dairy products be fat-free
inflammatory lipids are the fad
that set our leukocytes on the wrong tracks
so eating herring's good, but beef is bad
and some go vegan, shunning flesh for flax
instead, they load their diets up with soy
and look for miracles in mounds of kale
and shun a nutrient that might give joy
and swig fermented tea instead of ale
but salad's not the stuff of which we dream
in sleep we fantasize about ice-cream