the obesity myth
Following up on Dave's observations regarding doubts about the health benefits of moderate drinking:(1) The politics of epidemiology are most obvious when you see people treat relatively weak correlations from.
Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler stroll down Memory Lane at Time magazine, where moral panic isn't a sociological concept -- it's an exciting brand of contemporary journalism. I was at.
The more one looks into this topic the more obvious it becomes that a concept like "normal weight" is so sociologically complex as to be practically meaningless.A couple of further.
Body liberation can start with a donut.Make it a jelly.
One of the strangest aspects of the moral panic over fat in our culture is the bizarre concept that having a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is "normal." It certainly.
As a follow-up to Paul's post below, I note that among the people classified as "overweight" by the BMI index we can find...George W. Bush. Sure, he may exercise regularly.
A top government research scientist I know has a theory about the "obesity epidemic." Dr. X isn't allowed to speak on the record to the media about X's work without.
If you've never seen Joy Nash's awesome Fat Rant you should do so soon.