Re: An interim reply to your reply
Harry Oxley (hxo@management.canberra.edu.au)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:10:08 +1000
Dear Jim Mancuso
Some pcp networkers may be puzzled because, to the best of my
knowledge, this question of the medicalisation of 'bad eating habits' with
a funny name appealing to however-hung-up people by making them feel less
personally deplorable had not come up on the network as such before this.
That little discussion led me to think a number of different things at
once, and I will sort my thoughts out; if I inflict them on the network I
shall warn "discard if bored by fourth line" or something.
But we don't need graeco-latin names for conditions to use research
in their justifications. I occasionally suffer from a bad oral habit known
in Oz by unscientific terms like "piss-artistry", and have felt much better
since a recent piece of HARD science. I quote from last week's Canberra
Times:
"[A study by the National centre for Social and Economic Modelling]
for the Third National Women's Health Conference in Canberra, - - - found
that average alcohol consumption increased significantly according to the
amount of time spent at work. - - - People who work more than 50 hours a
week - - - drink almost three times more alcohol than those working
part-time"
It also said that really hard workers faced "increased risk of
disease, disability and premature death" which isn't so much fun, but we
always knew work was a health hazard.
Harry Oxley
Harry Oxley
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