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Letter: Letters : Fat churches

Published 15 November 1997

From J. J. C. Monk

Walton-on-the-Naze Essex

I was puzzled by the diagram on page 4 of Inside Science (“Food, glorious
food”, 18 October). While the evidence of an increase in numbers of clinically
obese males is all around us, I fail to see the reason for comparing them with
the rates for churches with spires. Have the facts been checked, as I am unaware
of any criteria by which the obesity of a church can be evaluated.

Yours with tongue in cheek,

Issue no. 2108 published 15 November 1997

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