Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-12]: Scientists from Yale Medicine and from the Baylor College of medicine, after locating a group of neurons of the brain which cut the appetite from smokers, promise therapies based on nicotine which could perhaps be control the obesity *epidemic* [source: web news]. “Epidemic” ? Dogmatism sometimes takes unexpected forms and the case of the the fight against “obesity” is one of those cases… Today's society defines how we must look like and of course no one can escape from this control… However if one looks deeper, he will find uglier monsters… The belief that a healthy body is all it takes to have a healthy mind, runs deep within our materialistic composition and our mechanistic point of view. Had it been so, Hawkins should have never got his thesis. And one could hardly claim that Einstein was a “gym fan”… Many times one sees people with poor health but with noble souls. The time when we will stop considering our body as a machine which needs servicing and will start respecting it as something which serves something more noble, will be the day we will become more “human”…
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