Nhiều thời gian rảnh nên tôi đọc linh tinh đủ thứ . Thấy những người già dậy sớm tinh mơ đi tập thể dục, hay những cô gái suốt ngày tập thể dục để giữ "eo" tôi mạnh dạn trích một đoạn tôi đọc được từ một cuốn sách xuất bản năm 1976 ( cách đây đúng 40 năm ) để các bạn đọc giải trí .
" We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy
What a miserable lot dieters are ! You can always recognise them
from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food. They are forever consulting their
calorie charts ; gazing at themselves in mirror ; and leaping on to
weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting
a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding tummies and double chins. Some wage all-out war on fat. Mere dieting is not enough. They exhaust themselves doing excercises, sweating in sauna baths, being pummeled and massaged by weird machines.
Don't think it's only the middle-aged who go in for these fads either.
Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from chronic malnutrition : they are living on nothing but air and water.
" Wonderfood is a complete food " the advertisement says. " Just dissolve a teaspoonful in water..." A complete food it maybe, but not quite so complete as a juicy steak...
What's all this self-inflicted torture for ? It will be a great day when
all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming courses ; when they hold out plates and demand second helpings ! "
Lê Minh (Debrecen,VIDI69)
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