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| Consuming our
own species is cannibalism. Depicted are the sisters Procne (Prokne),
and Filomela (Philomela) who served Itis (Itys), their son and
nephew, as dinner during a banquet hosted by Tereus,
his father. (Rubens) |
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This overview is concerned with FAT, OBESITY,
GREASE, LIPID, SUET, OIL and ADIPOSITY. The
subject is also reviewed in overviews concerned
with NUTRITION, NURSING, FOOD, SWALLOW,
BEVERAGES, BABY, IMBIBE, DRINK and ALCOHOL.
| Perhaps street
urchins in ancient Seville may have had a more normal life than
those living in modern urban slums. (Murillo) |
To better convey the ideas inherent in such
words, this overview also relies on a generous
number of icons of classic paintings.
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may be fallacious to assume that street children today are
better fed than street urchins in times of the Spanish Monarchy.
(Murillo) |
FATTY NUTRients and LIPID vitamins are essential
for good health. Without sufficient ADIPOSE or
fatty tissues, humans "PINE away" as if to
underscore the role of the PINEAL and other
endocrine glands which are fatty in appearance.
Furthermore, actuarial tables show that being
underweight poses a greater death risk than being
overweight to a similar degree. However, rather
few people are underweight in proportion to those
who are overweight. In fact, OBESITY is reaching
epidemic proportions in the USA.
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crass, are some of the related terms that underscore the
penchant for people to abuse those who are obese.(Ringling
Circus Museum) |
GRAsa in Spanish means GREase. Those who GORge may
become fat or GORdo and loose the GRAce. In fact,
EnGORged women are likely to store the BUTTer they
eat in their BUTT and cease to be GORGeous. To be
fair to linguists, it must be acknowledged that
GORDO and GORGE do not share the same roots. Gorge
points to gargle, gargantuan and GARGanta or throat
in Spanish.
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Some artists depicted mostly stout or obese people. (Botero) - (Duplessis) |
STEATO in Greek also means fat which points to
STEATOpygia for fat BUTTocks as if to remind women
not to "pig out" on food.
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| Eating BUTTER
may help to BUTTress the BUTT or BUTTocks. (Lautrec) |
Some women made
a better living because they could be called callipygian. (Chasseriau) |
It is self evident that FAT or GREASE repel water.
It is also true that some people are strongly
repelled by FAT or OBESE people. The social
OBstacles faced by OBese persons may be rooted
in history. GREASE in Latin is CRASSUS, a term
that also stands for CRASS, COARSE and even CRAP.
OBEDERE, OBESUS, OBID and OBIDA, Latin and
Ukrainian words for eating, obesity, supper and
offense thus underscore the potential of
eating becoming sinfully pathological.
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Steatopygous (fat buttocks) figurines were
popular among the
ancients. (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
It is true that OBesity may, on rare occasions,
arise from genetic defects,
Prader Willi Syndrome
for instance. In any case, most
instances of OBESITY are due to OBSESSIVE eating
or essen in German.
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Occasionally obesity is "organic" because of
genetic,
endocrine or other regulatory disturbances. (British Museum) |
Obesity is common among dwarfs.
(British Museum) |
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Some instances of obesity may be due to
alterations of
chromosome 15. (Miranda) |
EATing consists of chewing or MASTication or
grinding or MILling EDible foods into a MEAL.
SWALLOWing or inGESTing a meal usually is
followed by its diGESTion. Some foods are more
diGESTible than others and some would refer
to the best as EDAtious.
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Stout
Mouse (San Antonio Museum of Art) |
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Obese
Dog |
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Fat Cat (Field Museum) |
In Spanish eating and dinning room are COMEr and
COMEdor. Perhaps the presence of DIN in DINing
implies that in England COMEstibles were consumed in noisy
places.
Physicians describe skin "blackheads" as COMEDO.
Skin SEBAceous glands can become clogged with
accumulated SEBUM or SUIT. The tip of the plug of sebum
obstructing sebaceous skin glands can turn black
or remain white, giving rise to the descriptive
terms for this sort of skin pimples as "white
head" or "black head". Another disorder of SEBAceous skin glands is SEBOrrhea, a term to
describe "greasy skins" from an excess of excreted
SEBO or SUIT.
For those who love BUTTer, it is prudent to
remember that instead of looking like
BUTTERflies they may BUTTress their BUTT.
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| A callipygian
gluteal region or attractive buttocks have more to do with
avoiding gluttony and a glut of adiposity than with
calisthenics. (Fegnault) |
For those who love oil, it is prudent to consider
that good oil is made from OLIves. The OLIve tree is
sacred to those who remember that it was Athena's gift to humanity - it is the emblem of her victory over
Poseidon. Since then, an OLIve branch is given to
victors of OLYmpic games as a gesture "let it be peace", because wars had to
cease during these games.
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| An ancient oil
lamp underscores that Oils and fats are combustible and are
fuels. (Vatican Museums) |
To close, it is well to remember that OBesity can
be an OBstetric OBstacle and that it is best to
OBide prudence and not to OBEDERE or eat in
excess. This dictum should be easier for
Ukrainians to obey since for them OBid and OBida
mean supper and offense, thus should remind them
that GLUTtony is a cardinal sin.
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| Many obese
people go through hell while alive and do need to be reminded of
damnation. (Rubens) |
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- Compiled by W. Wertelecki, M.D. |
| Related Overview: BELOW BELLOW
BELLY |
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