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...high BMI and premature death, asks who stands to gain from the fanning of obesity fears, and questions the value of hounding populations to lose weight. "In general, we just don't know what the long-term consequences of rising obesity are going to be," says N.S.W. academic Michael Gard, coauthor with Jan Wright of The Obesity Epidemic: Science Morality and Ideology (2005). "But is it the looming, drop-everything health catastrophe that we're told it is? We say no." One thing highlighted by the obesity issue is how far apart the pronouncements of parts of the scientific community...
...eating, SPANS homed in on a few bad habits, but nothing startling compared with childhood decades ago, while academic Gard says the "serious epidemiological data on food consumption [show ]we've been eating fewer calories each decade since the 1920s." Less food. More exercise. So why are people getting heavier? Some analysts say we just don't know. Others theorize that what we're seeing is a continuation of increasing body mass in well-nourished nations, helped along by falling smoking rates. "I'm not arguing that we know for a fact that the increased weight level of people...
...Nonetheless, a little perspective is overdue. Authors Gard and Wright observe that despite the insistence of many scientists that overweight and obesity are diseases, other people can see that it's quite possible to be healthy, happy and large. "Perhaps," they write, "even without the benefit of a scientific education, people sense that the pathways that lead from overweight and obesity to premature death are extremely indirect ... that food should be enjoyed, not agonized over. Perhaps they see that, given the health challenges that currently face different parts of the world, describing entire Western populations as sick seems...
...Upper Loire for France's mountainous Cévennes region in 1878, the Scottish poet and novelist spent much of his 220-km walk cursing and goading Modestine, the recalcitrant "she-ass" he'd hired to carry his load. But by the time he reached St. Jean du Gard 12 days later, he'd had a change of heart about his long-eared companion, and the encounters they shared inspired[an error occurred while processing this directive] his memorable account, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes...
Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann: As for books, there were, on the philosophical side, the writings of Kant, and on the literary side, the great novel by Roger Martin du Gard, “Les Thibault” (about Europe and the First World War), and the plays and novels of Albert Camus, especially “The Plague.” Also, later, Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984” and Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon,” and Ionesco?...