Paul Campos
Auteur van The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health
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A professor of law at the University of Colorado and a nationally recognized expert on America's war on fat, Paul Campos is the author of a weekly opinion column that appears in more than forty newspapers nationwide. His articles have appeared in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, the Los toon meer Angeles Times, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe. He lives in Boulder, Colorado toon minder
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The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health (2004) 220 exemplaren
Jurismania: The Madness of American Law (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London) (1988) 46 exemplaren
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I went to a seminar on nutrition over 20 years ago during which it was explained that the insurance industry-based nutrition tables were arbitrarily determined much to the chagrin of nutrition experts. Furthermore, they did not include people over the age of 60 in the "studies" to determine those tables and yet they just extrapolated weights for people over the age of 60. The "studies" were actually done with thin, white, college-age males. How egregious!
I have always contended that the American Heart Association's promotion of a low fat diet is also based on the same faulty research cited in this book. It's difficult to argue against such large and embedded entities such as the diet industry and the AHA and I applaud this effort to do so. I used to work with a cardiologist who predicted that in a few decades we will start to see more people with osteoporosis (including a increase in men with this disorder) due to restriction of fat in cardiac diets.
I did not give this book 5 stars. The author gets rabid against his lawyer colleague for her diet book and rants a bit too much. This gets a bit obsessive and goes on a bit too much.
I do plan on using some of the information presented in this book to take to the University of Michigan Regents who recently denied any selling of sugar-sweetened beverages (including juices) anywhere on the campus, including the health system, in an effort to decrease obesity. Their paternalistic decision to do this smacks of discrimination against obesity and deprives people of making their own choice. Furthermore, the chemicals in "diet" drinks are now suspected of increasing food cravings and they are known to be unsafe for pregnant women and those with allergies to the chemicals.… (meer)