tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post5104935982017352921..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: The march of the meritocracyThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-15144332130344623872008-09-03T23:15:00.000+01:002008-09-03T23:15:00.000+01:00careful to eat goji berries for extra antioxidants...<I>careful to eat goji berries for extra antioxidants, and a handful of brazil nuts every day, thus ensuring they're not deficient in selenium, as per nutritionists' advice.</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed. The whole business of getting the right nutrients is a stressful business. So stressful, this in turn might become a source of poor health.<BR/><BR/>See the Calton thing? It's endlessly repeated but it's a statistical aberration - or so someone who worked out that way told me. Something to do with there being a doss house there where people snuff it on a fairly regular basis. The Calton itself isn't that big an area - this would tend to reinforce the impression that it's picked on because of the dramatic statistic it throws up. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3805031.stm" REL="nofollow">here's</A> a list of the top ten most deprived areas in Glasgow.Shuggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00298179140317536572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-73403323682656814622008-09-03T22:05:00.000+01:002008-09-03T22:05:00.000+01:00"You are what you eat"Yes -- this piece of pernici..."You are what you eat"<BR/><BR/>Yes -- this piece of pernicious crap should be forevermore consigned to the dustbin. See this old post where J Burchill lays into that shabby looking tramp git jamie oliver for that sort of bull.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://drinksoakedtrotsforwar.com/2005/08/06/sink-slipper/" REL="nofollow">"The simple fact is that you are not what you eat.</A> You are where you’re born, you are how rich your parents are, you are where you went to school, what you are lucky enough to be handed on a plate. Only last week Ruth Kelly admitted that the gap of achievement between the richest and poorest children was bigger than ever. The idea that all that is stopping working-class children from achieving is that their dumb working-class parents are stuffing them with Turkey Twizzlers — rather than the whole rotten system of class, privilege and nepotism — is a sickening and dangerous lie."<BR/><BR/>On Goldacre's piece ... he misses out another important factor. Access to health care (preventive and treatment) --- see Tudor Hart on the Inverse care Law and Distributive Justice here.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.sochealth.co.uk/history/inversecare.htm" REL="nofollow">"the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served."</A>Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015473239835274353noreply@blogger.com