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Flab hanging over your jeans wasn’t a good look, girls. But in a column straight out of the McConvill Guide to Opinion Writing, Paul Sheehan is drawing on research (pdf) showing that women, and especially young women, are packing on kilograms to suggest that this is due to ‘affluenza’. The majority are now either overweight, fat, obese, or are worried about crossing the border from fab to flab. Is hidden this what they call affluenza? According to the American TV documentary of the same name, affluenza means: “(1) The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that hidden results from efforts to keep hidden up with the Joneses. (2) An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the consumer’s dream. (3) An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.” A major byproduct of wealth and consumerism is Fat Chick Syndrome. It falls, most heavily and most cruelly, on the young. While it is true that obesity is more likely in wealthy countries (it is hard to get fat unless you can afford lots of food), it seems
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