Arie Boomsma and his supporters are heavily flared by Volkskrant columnist and GP Rinske van de Goor. She is annoyed by these types of people who are said to suffer from ‘corpocentrism’.
The life of Arie Boomsma is very monotonous, we know thanks to the daily routines that he continuously writes out and shares with the rest of the world. There’s only one thing that matters in his life: maintaining his muscles so that he still looks somewhat appetizing despite being 48 years old.
corpocentrism
General practitioner Rinske van de Goor, who has a column in the Volkskrant, speaks of ‘corpocentrism’. “There’s something scary about the corpocentrism of the Arie Boomsmas of the world. The obsession with and glorification of one’s own body is diametrically opposed to the idea that health is above all a great happiness,” she writes.
Health is not as malleable as Arie and his comrades think, according to Rinske. She is annoyed by Arie-like types who come to her doctor’s office because they want to check their body values. A waste of time, she thinks. “Many people have more pressing concerns than body optimization.”
Health check
What those Arie-like people are doing in her consulting room? Unnecessarily demanding care, writes Rinske. She recently had one of those. “She is very concerned with her health: she eats very healthy and does a lot of sports. She wants blood tests, just, as a check, to know the status of her vitamins and minerals.”
Rinske does not cooperate with that. “The usefulness of general health checks has not been proven and is not part of general practitioner care,” she writes. “It makes me itchy.”
Volkskrant
Rinske’s Volkskrant column:
Arie trains with a frying pan:
