October 20, 2011
One of the oddest truths in modern American society is that a lot of poor people are fat. As I talked about in Survival of the Fattest, starvation has always been the problem, not obesity. But our modern poor are far more affluent than their counterparts of even a century ago, and the staple foods [...]
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October 11, 2011
We often eat without thinking about it. The more available food is, the more we are likely to consume it without considering whether we really want it. The nut bowl on your coffee table will magically empty. We’ll forget that handful of potato chips we grabbed. Don’t I have a half a soda or a [...]
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