Modern Maladies - SUPERCALORIFIC SYNDROME
SUPERCALORIFIC SYNDROME – Dietary preoccupation, revived by each seasonal craze, has nurtured a Rain-Man genius for calculating kilojoules in the least tidbit, transcending the teen monopoly of your garden-type eating disorder into a pandemic prandial autism.
Where formerly a dill pickle may have crossed a patient’s lips, the same morsel is now assayed by density, fat analysis, Omega-3 breakdown and energy benefits such that the pickle is ignored, and the applied mathematics is conflated as sustenance.
Sufferers, while not always thin, will tend to stare at your desk’s jelly-bean jar with a Newtonian glaze, as well as exhibiting an actuarial gift for calculating the consultation’s rebate.