Gina Kolata
- Rethinking Thin
In this eye-opening report, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Kolata's account of four determined dieters in a study comparing the Atkins diet to a low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of the place of diets in American society.
Harriet Brown
- Normal Eating
Normal eating is trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating. Normal eating takes up some of your time and attention, but keeps its place as only one important area of your life. In short, normal eating is flexible. It varies in response to your hunger, your schedule, your proximity to food and your feelings.
Richard Dawkins
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.
