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Sunday, January 16, 2005
| Category: Eating Jacinta Allan reckons that the government might be able to have some effect on eating disorders by controlling the appearance of people who work in the modelling industry. How many ways is she wrong? In the same issue, by moving goal posts and encouraging the spread of epdemiological nonsense, Mary Papadakis provides support for this: "Two-thirds of Australian men are overweight or obese, new figures show." And then... Weight Management Council of Australia chairman Dr Mark Wahlqvist said men must take control of their weight.Do you reckon the chairman of the Weight Management Council of Australia is going to get up and say "the majority of men seem to be handling the wealth-enhanced variety and volume of dietary options very well"? Of course he's not. He's employed on the basis that he believes in his heart that two thirds of men are overweight. Always remember when reading these things that it is just as easy to start with the two thirds number and reverse engineer your weight thresholds from there. Disclosure: I, Semi Conductor, would be better off (by my own measure, not some miniscule relative risk foolishness) 10-15 kg down on my current mass. |
