Last week was time for the nine-month dental check-up. The dentist is an engaging guy, lots of times funny and always producing at least one clever observation.
This time, it was about cruising.
“So you’re going on a cruise?” he said. “I went on a cruise once and I wasn’t worried about putting on weight. You know what the experts say?”
With a high-speed drill doing whatever high-speed drills do, response was impossible.
“They say — and ‘they’ are the experts in gaining weight — that’s it’s physiologically impossible to add more than two pounds in one week. It’s also physiologically impossible to lose more than two pounds in one week. Physiologically impossible!”
We’d heard his reasoning before and in the interim nothing had happened to us on a one-week cruise to refute his contention. In other words, weight gain for a week was two pounds, or less.
So as many avid cruisers prepare for an escape this winter, remember what our dentist says and don’t take any guilt into the dining room or buffet.
Who’s going to argue?
With dental fingers and tools in your mouth, who can?
In the news…
• Regent pouring $125 million into refurbishing Mariner, Navigator, Voyager
• Baby boy born three weeks early on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2
• MSC latest cruise line to skip ports in Turkey — indefinitely
Today at portsandbows.com: New treats from Holland America
Carnival Ecstasy
4 nights
Feb.1, 2016
Miami (return): Key West, Cozumel
Oceanview: $279
Cost per day: $69
www.carnival.com
