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Metabolic living : food, fat and the absorption of illness in India / Harris Solomon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solomon, Harris, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Critical global health.
- Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity--India.
- Obesity.
- Lipids in human nutrition--India.
- Lipids in human nutrition.
- Food habits--India.
- Food habits.
- Malnutrition--India.
- Malnutrition.
- Convenience foods--India.
- Convenience foods.
- Metabolism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs.
- Contents:
- Interlude birthday cakes
- The thin-fat Indian
- Mango madness
- The taste no chef can give
- The ration card
- Readying the home
- Stamps
- Lines of therapy
- Waiting room walls
- Gut attachments
- Metabolic Mumbai.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374442
- 0822374447
- OCLC:
- 1139365739
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