Fat Politics The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic

Name: Fat Politics The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic
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ISBN: 9780195313208

ISBN-10: 0195313208

ISBN-13: 9780195313208

Edition: 2006

Authors: J. Eric Oliver

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Over the past twenty years, obesity has risen in the United States to epidemic proportions. Today, over sixty percent of Americans are overweight, and over one in four is obese. This book examines the cultural contradictions that underlie this massive transformation. Oliver's highly readable yet carefully documented book addresses the meaning of obesity in American life. At one level, the book outlines very straightforward issues such as controversies over the sources of obesity, its economic and social consequences, and its prospects for resolution. At another level, the book examines fatism, the last bastion of acceptable discrimination in the United States, particularly as it applies to…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction--A Big, Fat Problem



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


Index