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Fat politics : the real story behind America's obesity epidemic / J. Eric Oliver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliver, J. Eric, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity--United States.
- Obesity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting the story of America's obesity epidemic, this book examines the political forces that shape America's obesity 'epidemic'. It argues that the concern with obesity is based less in science and more in the financial interests of the health care system. It concludes that the obesity epidemic is symptomatic of some larger contradictions.
- Contents:
- What is fat?
- How obesity became an epidemic disease
- Why we hate fat people
- Women, fat, and the sexual market
- Fat genes and the obesity blame game
- Food and weight gain: super sized misperceptions
- Sloth, capitalism, and the paradox of freedom
- Obesity policy: the fix is in
- Unmaking the obesity epidemic.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-219) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983911-5
- 1-280-56448-2
- 9786610564484
- 0-19-534702-1
- 1-4237-4666-X
- OCLC:
- 94963565
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