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Cartoon “Dealing with Bread Addiction (Free Radical cartoon)” by Nick D. Kim, Ph.D. Take a look at Nick’s home page.

Food for Thought
According to a study by Harvard researcher Anne Becker, when television was widely introduced to the Fiji Islands in 1995, only three percent of the island’s young female population reported suffering eating disorders. Now, after three years of television’s influence, a full 15 percent of girls in the study reported they vomited to control their weight. “(The girls) look to television characters as role models,” Becker said while presenting her findings to a recent American Psychiatric Association meeting in Washington, D.C. “While it’s an everyday concept to Americans, reshaping the body is a new concept to Fijians.” Either that or they’ve been watching too many afternoon talk shows, whose dysfunctional guests make it seem all too fashionable to admit to eating disorders.

Fast Food
Thanks to a recent bill passed this June by the Tennessee legislature, automobile drivers in the Volunteer State may now grill anything they kill on a Tennessee highway. Known as the “road kill” bill, the new law reverses the current statute, under which a motorist can be sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500 for taking home a deer carcass. Small game like raccoons and possums are not effected by the legislation: Tennessee drivers are already welcome to peel those rascals from their bumpers and toss them in the stew pot.

Cartoon “Another Casualty in the War of the Atoms” by Nick D. Kim, Ph.D. Take a look at Nick’s home page.