Weighing in : obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism / Julie Guthman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guthman, Julie.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

California studies in food and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity--Social aspects.

Obesity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 227 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Weighing in takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also focuses the lens of obesity on the broader food system to understand why we produce cheap, overprocessed food, as well as why we eat it. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: What's the Problem? 1

2 How Do We Know Obesity Is a Problem? 24

3 Whose Problem Is Obesity? 46

4 Does Your Neighborhood Make You Fat? 66

5 Does Eating (Too Much) Make You Fat? 91

6 Does Farm Policy Make You Fat? 116

7 Will Fresh, Local, Organic Food Make You Thin? 140

8 What's-Capitalism-Got to Do with-it? 163

9 Conclusion: What's on the Menu? 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

759152262

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.