Diet pills in the time of rice shortage

Hi, boys and girls, it's no longer that cool to talk about dieting and staying thin.

As you may know, we are facing a global food crisis. The threat of a shortage in the supply of rice and some other essential foods seems real enough. The United Nations, among other august international agencies, has warned about "social unrest on an unprecedented scale" if the crisis is allowed to worsen.

So, stop preaching the gospel of dieting. You're not going to be so callous as to tell your starving neighbor that skipping meals will make him or her look good. Food crisis or not, the obsession with thinness is beginning to be challenged in some trendy circles. It's about time.