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Fat politics : the real story behind America's obesity epidemic /

Publisher description for Fat politics : the real story behind America's obesity epidemic / J. Eric Oliver. "Our government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis, that sixty percent of Americans are "overweight," and that one in four is obese. But how true are these...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oliver, J. Eric, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.