Pleasure and Its Perils

Fat Heads

A FEW years ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a cardiologist wrote touchingly about seeing his 4-year-old daughter, Ariel, sneaking to the fridge to have some of the ice cream her granny had bought. “From conversation around the house,” he said, “she knew what foods were high in saturated fat and cholesterol and that they should be avoided.” She felt guilty, and her daddy felt guilty about her guilt. He also felt guilty that he had not yet measured her cholesterol, but he consoled himself that “there is no uniform agreement among all experts on when to start screening small children.” Poor Ariel!

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Fat Heads

A FEW years ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a cardiologist wrote touchingly about seeing his 4-year-old daughter, Ariel, sneaking to the fridge to have some of the ice cream her granny had bought. “From conversation around the house,” he said, “she knew what foods were high in saturated fat and cholesterol and that they should be avoided.” She felt guilty, and her daddy felt guilty about her guilt. He also felt guilty that he had not yet measured her cholesterol, but he consoled himself that “there is no uniform agreement among all experts on when to start screening small children.” Poor Ariel!