Weighing in : obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism / Julie Guthman.
This book takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. The author examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also fo...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: what's the problem?
- How do we know obesity is a problem?
- Whose problem is obesity?
- Does your neighborhood make you fat?
- Does eating (too much) make you fat?
- Does farm policy make you fat?
- Will fresh, local, organic food make you thin?
- What's capitalism got to do with it?
- Conclusion: what's on the menu?