Being fat is a stigma. At least in the West and in the modern world. This is why we like to hide obesity under the difficult medical concept Obesitywhich, as is often the case with scientific terms, originally comes from Latin, where the base is formed by the verb to obey, which means as much as overeating, eating too much. derivative Obesity Stands for fat, plump, related obesity To gain weight.
Obesity and obesity, although they appear incidentally in a French text of the fifteenth century and in an English text a century later, were still for a long time in use exclusively by medical practitioners. Also, the first time the word obesity appeared in the Netherlands, it was used by someone who called himself a doctor. A traveling miracle doctor who visited the markets of Maastricht and Rotterdam and announced in local newspapers that he knew the cure for weight loss, which was an alcoholic beverage. To combat obesity.
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In Maastricht, he did it in 1881 in French, because Mail Muse It appeared in this language at that time, in Rotterdam newspaper However, the impostor is mentioned in Dutch. After that, it was nearly a century before the word appeared again in a newspaper. Well-known medical author Otto M. de Val in 1975 at Parole Some forms of obesity and its risks. In his explanation, he presented the correct medical terminology and thus mentioned obesity. The word did not become popular until the late 1980s. Not only in Holland, but also in neighboring countries. The reason can be imagined, that obesity has become a problem in our affluent society.
A new form of obesity has emerged in recent weeks: car visit, a combination of car and obesity, hence the word confusing. We often encounter car as a prefix for a foreign word in Dutch. in Self-confident eg or in local. The first car piece from the Greek the carsmeaning the same, noom comes from Nomos It can be translated as a method, custom or principle. An independent country governs itself in its own way. In the habitat recognize Greek chtoon, country, so a native is a person who was born in the same country. a autoimmune disease It is a disease in which the immune system turns against its own body, so against yourself. An autobiography is an autobiography written by the main character.
In this line, endogenous obesity appears to be one’s obesity. But this is not true. Car means something different here. It’s the car the cars, originally self-propelled, but at the same time just a passenger car. Car ownership refers to fat cars. A fat car, however status symbol it may be, is as objectionable and shameful to third parties as fat men. This is why municipal authorities are now considering imposing obese parking fees for such huge vehicles. a car tax.
A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper on July 24, 2023.