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Washington—The yearly dieting season may well begin early this year.
That’s the impression from the seeming increase in ads on TV and radio and in newspapers and magazines plugging dieting methods, dieting books, dieting advice, and reducing resorts—all obsessed with one of mankind’s historical HPffthlenxsst getting rid of unwanted weight.
However, history’s view of fat folks is confusing. Classical Greece, to size up the Venus de Milo and other surviving statues, liked wellput-together citizens. The Greek city state of Sparta, always in fit-to-fight readiness, told the overweight to get out of town. Socrates supposedly was first to confess, “Other men eat to live, but I live to eat,” according to the National Geographic Society.
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