"Given the topsy-turvy relationship of our culture to food, it is not the rise in eating disorders which is astonishing but the fact, rather, that so many people eat more or less normally. Contrary to what our nihilist and relativists tell us, there is a human nature and its
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Syndrome, gymnastica nervosa perhaps, or jogging bulimia... We live at a time when the healthiest and the unhealthiest actions can have the same motivation. The true reason why many young people, especially women, join the ranks of smokers, these days, or do not give up smoking,
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not even at the urging of their Government, is the fear of gaining weight, a fear which this same Government, curiously, does its best to foster and intensify." - Rene Girard, Eating Disorders & Mimetic Desire
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