Smell issues, along with drunk issues and fat issues, pervade "Airline," a peculiar behind-the-scenes show about how hard it is for the employees of Southwest Airlines to stomach their revolting passengers.
More issues, fatter and better bound as the 90's slip into the current decade and the bands between the covers slink toward obscurity or brighter spotlights, produce reminiscences about acts that earned their first publicity in JerseyBeat.
It's like they are all suddenly issued with Fat is a Feminist Issue and blow up like lard balloons.
Certainly, the 340-page issue is fat, with 150 pages (outpacing the original plan for 100) sold at $40,000 per double-page spread.
The report on obesity, which was produced last week by the health select committee, was greeted with unprecedented, almost hysterical, coverage of the issue of fat.
But the effort was later renamed a "chips tax," skirting the issue of fat altogether, a change that many people attribute to lobbying by multinational corporations.
Clearly, with the number of overweight individuals growing, the issue of fat is not simply going to melt away.Roxanne Khamsi covers research developments for [email protected] based in London.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] of the landSIR – The problem with obesity is that, while it is a medical issue, being fat is treated as an issue of social justice ("The shape of things to come", December 13th).
From movies like "Super Size Me" to books like "Fast Food Nation" to a flood of studies showing the impact of obesity on countless things, from sperm counts to the cost of health care, the questions and issues surrounding fat are unavoidable.
And on June 2nd, Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, issued a fat report on continuing "widespread ethnic slaughter, executions, torture, rape and arbitrary arrest" in the region.Even by the standards of war, some of the atrocities in eastern Congo are shocking.
To address this issue, high-fat diet-fed and streptozotocin-induced (HFD-STZ) type 2 diabetic animal model was developed in the present study.
