David Haslam, author of Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine, on Start the Week - making good points about the demonization of fat children in literature. I wonder whether his point is that these children are actually evil - if only because we have failed to counteract our genes
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He's a director of the National Obesity Forum, so I don't think there's much doubt that's where he's coming from. *spits in the general direction of Tam Fry*
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Wanders in the general direction of a stir fry.
(Why does the person who most often tells me to lose weight also offer me second portions? It's the Tree of Knowledge all over again.)
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