More on obesity

Donal Fagan <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Demonizing Fat in the War on Weight

Don't forget Lynn Cox at 5'6" weighs 185 pounds. With all
the demonizing of weighing more than a certain standard, it
looks like she is ashamed of herself. I just read her new
book "Swimming to Antarctica" and she doesn't say a thing
about her weight which is what I would like to know about.
Also, no pictures. It was a very dull book because it had
little in the way of tips in how she was able to do all the
long distance cold water swimming that she did. She counts
her strokes to one thousand and then she starts counting
all over again. She wears a Tyr bathing suit. Her arms and
legs get completely numb but no gangrene sets in. The best
part of the book are the description of some of the things
that have happened during her unusual swims like once
dolphins bumped her and swam along with her. Then another
time, she had to break through the ice pans with her
elbows. I like to think about this when I am doing laps in
the boring swimming pool.

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from today's NY Times, Arts & Ideas:

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Almost every day, it seems, there is another alarming
study about the dangers of being fat ...

Now, says Peter Stearns, a leading historian in the field,
the rising concern with obesity " is triggering a new
burst of scholarship." These researchers don't condone
morbid obesity, but they do focus on the ways the
definition of obesity and its meaning have shifted, often
arbitrarily, throughout history. ...

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I find this article interesting both in light of the many
r.s.s. discussions on obesity, and because I took several
courses from Stearns in college.

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