My reasoning is this: What with the irrefutable evidence of a rise in CO2, esp. since the early 1970s, have we (thinking ESPECIALLY of Americans--U.S.A.) been driving more (suburbia, malls, etc.), sitting more, and hello, the size "6" of today being the size "10" of 20 years ago? I guess I am reaching for ways to deal with my dismay of our culture of the sanctioning and encouragement of recreational eating, particularly when the health care providers do not seem AT ALL to be addressing this vigorously with their patients; this I am seeing from the medical reports I transcribe. Two-fold question, then:
1. An obesity / increased atmospheric CO2 connection? AnyBODY want to WEIGH in on this one?
2. Why is obesity something political, something that we must now re-word when describing--e.g., all "overweight" and no more "obese" as descriptors? When did this culture of encouraged overindulgence begin? How did this sacred COW come to be born?
2006-07-19
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