re: "Novices get advice about fighting flab" (BP, September 2, 2022)
Dear editor,
If a major driver of unhealthy obesity in Thai Buddhist novices is the fact that "monks are not allowed to eat after midday," that suggests that a sensible solution will embrace more healthy, natural eating habits by ending that old rule of dubious merit.
Is there any good reason to stick with an unnatural and harmful rule merely because it happens to be traditional? Surely the good health of children is worth more than blind adherence to habits based on dubious beliefs that modern science has improved on.
An honest, healthy meal in the evening is far preferable to the current situation of cheating the rules by drinking sugary milk and other sickly things that the hierarchical legalism does not define as meals.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on September 3, 2022, under the title "End eating rule" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2383338/van-death-tragedy
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