The Call-Girls

The Call-Girls

"The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue" is a novel (ISBN 0-09-112550-2) by Arthur Koestler. The plot tells the story of a group of academic scientists struggling to understand the human tendency towards self-destruction, while the group members gradually become more suspicious and aggressive towards each other.

In this novel Koestler introduces the term cocacolonization to refer to the expansion of a typical modern diet, consisting of such fare as hamburgers, French fries, fat-rich snacks, soft drinks high in sugar. Nowadays the term is widely used by physicians when they want to explain, at least in part, the global expansion of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors.


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