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Pessl's witty portrait suggests an undergraduate experience in which young women are uninhibited and unafraid to trade girlish figures for more substantial heft, peer pressure be damned. What a refreshing idea! ... proudly celebrating undergrad girth proves more entertaining and more radical.
The "freshman 15," the overhyped " weight gain attributed to first-year college students' embrace of beer, late-night snack breaks and sedentary habits" is "overhyped", and she's " loving today's New York Times opinion piece celebrating [bad nutrition] ... she turns the discussion on its head by cheerfully touting the pleasures of weight gain: "Step-by-step, nitpicky dieting --- any kind of strangling self-denial -- goes against the very essence of the university experience [:]excess, for experimentation [...] free-spirited indulgence
The health-conscious may raise their eyebrows at this call to indulge
Oh, those wacky health-nuts! So what's it gonna be? Fuck the doctors, or no? Pick nits, or not? Heed the pressure coming from the medical establishment, or only when it's convenient?
aren't you concerned about encouraging young women to develop body image issues and/or eating disorders with all this talk about 'low fat diets'? i mean, this is obviously junk science created by The Patriarchy in an attempt to demonize women with curves.
last week on google news one of the AP headlines was "The Skinny on Nicole Richie." since the majority of Americans are overweight, chances are an overweight person wrote that headline. it's unbelievable that in the era of Rosie O'Donnel and Oprah, in 2006, that such a pervasive anti-fat prejudice exists.
The idea that "low-fat" diets, without regard to what kind of fat it is, reduce heart disease and cancer is in fact junk science, and I'm pretty disappointed to see it promoted here.
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of
both men and women in the U.S., not just the No. 1 killer of women. Please correct the editing error, as it may give the impression that heart disease is a disease only of women.
