Word: fatted
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...many other cultures it's just the reverse: the rich are fat and the poor are emaciated. Anthropologist George Armelagos of Emory University calls it the Henry the Eighth syndrome, referring to the corpulent King of England who lived so well off the labor of his peasantry. "Think about how many people had to work to make the King the size that he was," says Armelagos. Being rotund is still a sign of prosperity and prestige in Polynesia and parts of Africa...
Food was money for mankind's first million years or so. When it is plentiful, the body -- for sound physiological reasons -- stores the excess away as fat, biology's own energy reserve. It's no accident that fat adds taste to food; evolution reinforces the body's urge to eat the things it needs to survive. In peasant villages, people instinctively gain weight in the summer and burn it off in the winter. Laboratory animals will eat Crisco right...
...advent of agriculture upset the balance of nature, creating food & surpluses. And the practice of fattening animals for slaughter consolidated those surpluses into the dietary equivalent of a gold brick: the thick juicy steak, marbled with fat...
...recommended daily allowance for men and twice that for women. With the price of beef falling, Americans last year ate nearly 64 lbs. per person -- the highest consumption level in five years -- and that number is expected to increase again this year. No wonder America has become the fat Polynesian prince of the world, the 20th century's answer to Henry the Eighth...
...free. Cathy DeThorne, a research director at the Leo Burnett advertising agency, ran a series of focus-group studies for the Beef Industry Council that suggest that when it comes to food, people show an almost infinite capacity for self-delusion. A woman believed she was eating a low-fat diet because she was pouring the fat off her pork chops. Others forsook meat for healthy salads, and then drowned those salads in dressings that contained more fat than the meat they gave...