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The Evolutionary Biology of Obesity
Posted on March 13, 2012
Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, speaks about the evolutionary origins of today’s obesity epidemic. For more on the situation of eating, see Situationist contributors Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson, and David Yosfion’s law review article Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America. For a listing of numerous Situaitonist posts on the situational sources of obesity, click here.
Posted in Choice Myth, Evolutionary Psychology, Food and Drug Law, History, Life, Video | 1 Comment »
An Inspiring Story or Another Distorted Messages on Obesity?
Posted on March 27, 2011
Earlier in the week, I wrote about the problems I saw with Joe D’Amico’s all-McDonald’s diet “experiment” leading up to the L.A. Marathon. It turns out that that was not the only potentially troubling obesity-related story coming out of the marathon. The media was also very excited to report on Kelly Gneiting becoming the heaviest […]
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The Viral Situation of Obesity
Posted on September 21, 2010
From UC San Diego News: The emerging idea that obesity may have an infectious origin gets new support in a cross-sectional study by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers who found that children exposed to a particular strain of adenovirus were significantly more likely to be obese. The study will be published […]
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The Policy Situation of Obesity
Posted on March 12, 2010
In 2004, Peter Jennings hosted an outstanding report, titled “How To Get Fat Without even Trying,” in which he explored some of the situational factors, including federal government agricultural policies and food industry practices, that are contributing to Americas obesity epidemic. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * […]
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The Distributional Situation of Obesity
Posted on May 18, 2009
William Underhill had a nice summary of recent research on one of the situational causes of obesity: inequality. Here are some excerpts. * * * What makes Americans so fat? Don’t blame the doughnuts. That extra heft could be symptomatic of a malaise prevalent in all the world’s least equal societies. According to “The Spirit […]
Posted in Distribution, Emotions | 2 Comments »
Situational Obesity, or, Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat and Veg
Posted on August 2, 2007
No one would deny that your friends have a profound effect on your personality and what you find to be socially acceptable. A group of friends develops inside jokes, shared history, and gestures that instantly convey complex meanings. They also influence each member’s views of how people should act in groups and what is acceptable […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Food and Drug Law, Life | 6 Comments »
The Situational Benefits of Compassion
Posted on May 20, 2013
Emma Seppala, for The Observer, has an outstanding overview of some of the health consequences and contagiousness of compassion. Here is a portion of her article: Decades of clinical research has focused and shed light on the psychology of human suffering. That suffering, as unpleasant as it is, often also has a bright side to […]
Posted in Altruism, Distribution, Emotions, Morality, Positive Psychology | 1 Comment »
Robert Lustig on Effects and Politics of Sugar
Posted on December 31, 2012
Dr. Robert Lustig (Sugar: The Bitter Truth) speaks at Yale’s Peabody Museum on the policy and politics of the “Sugar Pandemic.” Hosted by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. Related Situationist posts: The Situation of How We Became Fat – Part 3 The Situation of How We Became Fat – Part 2 The Situation of […]
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Michael Pollan on the Political Situation of Food
Posted on November 29, 2012
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer Michael Pollan for a discussion of the agricultural industrial complex that dominates consumer choices about what to eat. He explores the origins, evolution and consequences of this system for the nations health and environment. He highlights the role of science, journalism, and politics in the development of a diet that […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Deep Capture, Distribution, Education, Food and Drug Law, Ideology, Marketing, Politics, Video | 2 Comments »
Marion Nestle on The Situation of Our Food
Posted on November 28, 2012
Related Situationist posts: Dr. David Kessler Waxes Situationist The Situation of our Food – Part I The Situation of Our Food – Part II The Situation of Our Food – Part III The Situation of our Food – Part IV The Situation of Our Food – Part V For more on the situation of eating, see Situationist contributors Adam Benforado, […]
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The Deeply Captured Situation of Sugar
Posted on November 25, 2012
Mother Jones has a superb new article on the deeply captured situation of sugar. It begins as follows: ON A BRISK SPRING Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to the podium of a Chicago ballroom to accept the Oscar of the public relations world, the Silver Anvil award for excellence in “the forging […]
Posted in Deep Capture, Food and Drug Law, History, Ideology, Life, Marketing, Public Relations | 1 Comment »
Peer Pressure and Voting
Posted on October 30, 2012
From The Harvard Gazzette: Many people believe that idealism motivates them to open their wallets for a favorite candidate or that civic duty motivates them to go to the polls to vote. But don’t discount peer pressure as an important factor in elections, a political scientist says. “We operate as a family, a neighborhood, a […]
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The Social Situation of the Citizen – Today!
Posted on October 25, 2012
When: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 12 – 1pm Where: Austin North Event type: Lectures Sponsor: Student Association for Law & Mind Sciences, HLS Republicans, HLS Democrats, HLS American Constitution Society, PLMS Do social networks really influence individuals’ politics? If social networks matter, how do they work? Utilizing a variety of experimental and survey data from […]
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The Situational Effects of Food Advertising
Posted on February 9, 2012
Pierre Chandonm and Brian Wansink recently posted their paper “Is Food Marketing Making Us Fat? A Multi-Disciplinary Review” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. Whereas everyone recognizes that increasing obesity rates worldwide are driven by a complex set of interrelated factors, the marketing actions of the food industry are often singled out as one of the […]
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