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Psych 1 interspersed the things you really cared about–controlling people and generally getting your way–with useless info like the causes and warning signs of clinical depression. Psych 15, “Social Psychology,” is like that cute fat girl who went on a diet: all the essentials without the fluff. Your fearless leader will be the superb Daniel Wegner, who re-takes the reigns after a year on leave doing research. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe at mildly inappropriate anecdotes. Some of the highlights: Interpersonal Attraction?...
...that everyone's body is biologically programmed to stay around a certain weight and will fight attempts at maintaining a weight more than 2-3 kg below that set point. Given less food than it's used to and responding to a drop in leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, the body clicks into survival mode, slowing metabolism to save energy and triggering cravings for high-kilojoule foods. Now what may be looming for the dieter is months or years of fluctuating weight, possible use of potentially dangerous weight-loss pills, a heightened risk of binge eating and other...
...paper published in February in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Campos and others reviewed what medicine knows about how fat-or adiposity-is supposed to cause disease. They concluded that with the exception of osteoarthritis, where increased weight contributes to wear on joints, and a few cancers where estrogen originating in fat tissue may play a role, "causal links between body fat and disease remain hypothetical." They cite a recent U.S. study that found women who'd had an average of 10 kg of fat removed by liposuction had no improvements in health markers over the next three months...
...fat is not itself pathological, what's driving the obesity panic? In the same article, the authors point out that many of the world's leading obesity researchers who've been involved in defining overweight and obesity have received funding from the pharmaceutical and weight-loss industries; some manage weight-loss clinics themselves and so have "an economic interest in defining unhealthy weight as broadly as possible and overstating the hazards of obesity." While stressing he's not an obesity expert, David Henry, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Newcastle, notes the potential for disease mongering among...
...operations of what had been the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. In the short term, two top prelates - Japanese Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao and British Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, respectively - lost their Curial positions in the double mergers. It also signals a long-term commitment to trim bureaucratic fat...