Archive for September 2009
slow down you eat too fast
From Obesity and the Fastness of Food by Catherine Rampell in the New York Times.
So how come all the English speaking nations – Mexico excepted – are at the top of this chart, asks George Wallace of A Fool in the Forest? I just got back from a trip to London and Paris. London was full of fast food, Paris was not. Where there is a vacuum, fast food will fill it. The English speaking world’s vacuum is vast – food isn’t about community, health, ritual. No, it’s profit making, entertainment, novelty. Is it any wonder the WHO ranks France no. 1 and the US no.37 in health?