Obesity, a cure for loss of identity

by Clive Hamilton in The Sydney Morning Herald

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Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald on September 23, 2007

While we stigmatise fat people, perhaps they are behaving normally in a sick social environment. The answer then is not diets, drugs and surgery but a wholesale change in the culture of consumption, which itself is a reaction to the emptiness of affluence.

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