Archivo etiqueta «Obesidad»
By Minette Marrin (THE TIMES, 27/08/06):
Fat is not a feminist issue, as Susie Orbach once claimed. Fat is a class issue. Rich, educated people are not fat; you see almost no children in private schools who are overweight. Fatness and obesity are directly related to lower education and lower incomes.
What is sad is that at a time when this country is richer than ever and ought to have better schools than ever, we have far more fat people than ever — a dangerous explosion of flab. Last week the Department of Health issued a report grimly called Forecasting … Seguir leyendo
By Melanie McDonagh (THE TIMES, 20/08/06):
When Julius Caesar cried, “Let me have men around me that are fat”, he never realised that one day his wishes would come true. According to Barry Popkin, an American nutritionist, there are now more overweight people in the world than hungry ones.
There are a billion fatties worldwide and 800m of the lean and hungry. It’s an extraordinary turnabout in the human condition. Once, the mass of men worked to stave off hunger and famine; now it’s coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes that they have to worry about.
Mind you, we … Seguir leyendo
Por Joaquín Leguina, diputado socialista y estadístico (EL PAÍS, 18/08/06):
La película Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), rodada en 1942, creo yo que no se podría realizar hoy. ¿Y por qué? se preguntará el amable lector. Para ilustrar la respuesta tendré que evocar algunas escenas de aquella tan renombrada cinta. Para empezar, Casablanca es una película llena de humo: el que suelta el tren al salir de la estación de París llevándose a un abandonado y humillado Rick (Humphrey Bogart) hacia Marsella, hasta el que aparece en las escenas finales donde, primero, el citado Rick acaba con el nazi Strasser (Conrad … Seguir leyendo
Par François Ascher, professeur à l’université Paris-VIII. Dernier ouvrage paru : le Mangeur hypermoderne. Une figure de l’individu éclectique, Odile Jacob, 2005. (LIBERATION, 19/07/06):
L’obésité est devenue, à en croire l’Organisation mondiale de la santé, une épidémie. Partout dans les pays développés, mais aussi dans des pays moins riches comme la Chine, les pouvoirs publics se mobilisent pour lutter contre ce nouveau fléau : le surpoids. Les campagnes d’information et d’éducation se succèdent, relayées par les médias, dramatisant chaque fois un peu plus la situation : vous n’êtes pas encore obèse ? Attention, vous risquez de le devenir. Vos … Seguir leyendo
By Tim Suter, a partner at Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. Response to ‘Tough on crime, to hell with the causes of crime if they make money‘ (THE GUARDIAN, 05/05/06):
It is for others to judge whether there is indeed a link between diet and violent behaviour (Tough on crime, to hell with the causes of crime if they make money, May 2). Our job as the broadcasting regulator is to protect viewers and listeners from exploitation and harm, and to ensure that they have available to them a wide … Seguir leyendo
By George Monbiot (THE GUARDIAN, 02/05/06):
Does television cause crime? The idea that people copy the violence they watch is debated endlessly by criminologists. But this column concerns an odder and perhaps more interesting idea: if crime leaps out of the box, it is not the programmes that are responsible as much as the material in between. It proposes that violence emerges from those blissful images of family life, purged of all darkness, that we see in the advertisements.
Let me begin, in constructing this strange argument, with a paper published in the latest edition of Archives of Pediatrics and … Seguir leyendo
Adelgazar por decreto. Puestos a exigir, ante la obesidad infantil sería mejor imponer juegos activos que modificar la bollería. Abel Mariné, Catedrático de Nutrición y Bromatología de la Facultat de Farmàcia de la UB (EL PERIODICO, 22/01/05).