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TV tonight: why Mhairi Black swapped parliament for standup comedy
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The former MP tells her surprising story in a candid documentary. Plus,
Nick Grimshaw’s chaotic show about dogs. Here’s what to watch this evening
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ReplyDelete“that misinformation was not the main issue, that there was something else going on.”
On this account, one might say that Oliver Twist didn’t ask for more gruel just because he was hungry; he wanted all the gruel he could get because his inner economist had heard that hard times lay ahead.
“I think this is a terrific series of studies,” says David Allison, the director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who points out that Laran’s findings fit into “an exciting, ongoing, and emerging set of research results” examining the idea of “energetic uncertainty”—a general tendency among animals and humans to gobble up calories whenever they perceive that lean and hungry days lie ahead.
Of course, it isn’t quite that straightforward. As Allison points out, feeling socially subordinate is also a factor in energetic uncertainty. “It may be that lower socioeconomic status contributes to obesity in humans not because of low purchasing power per se, but because the perception that one is ... cont/ -