I recently stumbled across a piece of writing by Richard A. Muller called ‘The Physics Diet.’ Dr Muller is a Professor in the Department of Physics at UC Berkeley and wrote this small piece on dieting from a thermodynamic perspective.
It’s the simplest diet ever and works because you can’t beat the laws of thermodynamics.
[Click here to read ‘The Physics Diet]
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New Zealand Immigration policy will reject you if you are too fat. An article in the Telegraph highlights a fat british couple trying to emigrate to Kiwiland. The husband shed enough weight to be allowed in, but his wife has yet to be able to follow him. While the article takes a pity-the-couple stance, I applaud the New Zealand Immigration officials for protecting Kiwis from the high medical burden of an increasingly obese population.
From the article: “The immigration department’s focus is [that] it cannot afford to import people into the country who are going to be a significant drain on our health resources.”
“You can see the logic in assessing if there is a significant health cost associated with this individual and that would be a reason for them not coming in.”
I guess there won’t be many Americans moving there anytime soon.
[Click here to read the full article in The Telegraph]
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