Was Pavarotti healthy or unhealthy? If we are to use the World Health Organization’s definition of obesity as a BMI ≥30, argues Jonathan Steffen, then the illustrious opera singer was the latter. Yet, as the West becomes ever-increasingly obsessed with … Read the full article
Currently reviewing Mike Gibney’s book Ever Seen a Fat Fox? Human obesity explored (University College Dublin Press, 2016) for issue 1/2017 of Sight and Life magazine. The nature of humans’ relationship with food over the centuries provides the guiding principle … Read the full article