Facets of Fat

ARISTOTLE REPRIMANDED GREENHORN scientists in his Academy for their immature disgust toward the gross and unappealing in nature. “The consideration of the lower forms of life ought not to excite a childish repugnance. In all natural things there is something to move wonder" (Boorstin 51). He believed that all things looked at impartially are manifestations of the divine. Ralph Ralph Waldo Emerson Waldo Emerson extended Aristotle's estimate of the beauty of nature into the process of death itself: “There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. Even the corpse has

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Speaking Patiently

NOTE: This article has been recommended by Heather Bell from the England Center for Health Education, and is being referred to the Center for Obesity Re and Education for distribution to interested U.S. doctors. I AM SURE that this letter comes as a surprise to you since I rarely make medical appointments (except when uncomfortably ill) and patients rarely write their doctors before seeing them. I am not an exceedingly resistant patient yet have unique concerns that are rarely recognized or taken seriously by health professionals. The problem is that I have a health condition that literally overshadows and obscures

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