As a medical doctor who has worked in areas of the world where the main problem is not too much food, but rather too little food, and where the daily fight is not against obesity but against hunger and malnutrition, I have NEVER met a human being, baby, child or adult, who did not eat anything eatable anytime --- and without throwing up afterwords. Is the western obsession with food, obesity, slimness and so-called "Health" a by-product of our food over-availability, and the fact that most of us are never really hungry, only more or less full?

I have searched the Net and only found references to studies of anorexia and bulimia from the rich countries, not one from the poor.

Regards. Dr T.M.Ringberg, M.D., Ph.D. (tata@dadlnet.dk)