Excess body weight is one of the evils of an affluent society, and I say affluent because in societies that struggle to provide rich countries with raw materials, being overweight is seen as a sign of wealth typical of well-being societies.
If you go online and look for methods to lose weight, you will find them for all tastes. Let's go, for example, to a page that specifies eight effective methods to lose weight proven by science. And when science is involved, there is no room for skeptics. These 8 scientific miracles are: the Keto diet, brain nutrition, the sirtfood diet, chrononutrition, food tolerance testing, nutrigenomics, antiaging nutrition, fitness and health and, the last one, immunonutrition.
Whether it's eight or two hundred methods, human beings want to lose weight for several reasons. Some are for health, and the most common, for an aesthetic sense that is closely linked to emotional well-being. Discomfort is usually subject to the inquisitive looks of rude people who usually give their opinion when no one asks for it. These cojoneras usually do not look in the mirror much and, as my psychologist tells me, they manifest their own traumas in others.
The only useful method to lose weight is to eat less and, above all, foods and dishes that do not make you salivate. A simple, scientific and tedious method.
But look here, the Jerusalem Post, a neoliberal newspaper founded in 1932 under the name Palestine Post, has published an article that has had a worldwide impact. And is not for less. Under the title, “How to use the stresses from the Israel-Hamas war to lose weight,” the newspaper close to the political theses of the Likud has just revealed to us the most effective method to win the battle against the scale.
To fight against being overweight, anything goes. Even trivializing the deaths that any war entails, no matter how holy it may be and no matter how many mothers mourn the 4,500 Palestinian children killed in the bombings of Gaza. I believe that the relatives of those killed in the attack by Hamas militants on October 7 will not like the method proposed by the Jerusalem Post either.
The psychopathic genius who wrote the article is Dr. Raz Hagoel-Walla. And I imagine the man or scientist – doctors are always supposed to have a scientific sense of existence – very satisfied, even happy, to see his article published in one of the most important newspapers in the country. The problem is that, once it was published, his happiness lasted as long as a dozen missiles lasted Vladimir Putin. The Hagoel-Walla method is so morally infectious that it has been subtly removed from digital publishing.
What will be next? Propose a stay in South Sudan, Yemen or Somalia to lose weight? Or perhaps go as a volunteer to the Ukrainian War to gain muscle mass? The process of moral degradation of this society is evident in Dr. Hagoel-Walla's article. They tell me that the article is published by a supremacist and I believe it.
My Republican grandparents went into exile to France in 1939 and remembered the period from the Civil War to the Second World War as the most terrible of their lives. In the few photos they kept of their exile, they look downcast. If they had had the Jerusalem Post article in their hands, I imagine them being happy and stressed when they heard the marked passage of the Werhmatch through the streets of Mazamet while they satisfiedly contemplated their skeletal bodies reflected in the asphalt of the streets destroyed by the bombs.
