Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity EpidemicOxford University Press, 2005/11/15 - 240 ページ It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industries, have campaigned to create standards that mislead the public. They mislabel more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," inflate the health risks of being fat, and promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof that obesity causes so much disease and death or that losing weight is what makes people healthier. Our concern with obesity, he writes, is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact. Misinformation pushes millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries, crash diets, and harmful diet drugs, while we ignore other, more real health problems. Oliver goes on to examine why it is that Americans despise fatness and explores why, despite this revulsion, we continue to gain weight. Fat Politics will topple your most basic assumptions about obesity and health. It is essential reading for anyone with a stake in the nation's--or their own--good health. |
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... Weight Gain: Super Sized Misperceptions 122 Sloth, Capitalism, and the Paradox of Freedom 143 Obesity Policy: The Fix Is In 159 Unmaking the Obesity Epidemic 181 Notes 191 Index 220 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments ...
... Weight Gain: Super Sized Misperceptions 122 Sloth, Capitalism, and the Paradox of Freedom 143 Obesity Policy: The Fix Is In 159 Unmaking the Obesity Epidemic 181 Notes 191 Index 220 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments ...
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... gaining so much weight and what we could do to stop it. But then I started to examine the evidence and a funny thing happened—the more I read, the more I realized how misguided my initial assumptions about obesity were.2 While it was ...
... gaining so much weight and what we could do to stop it. But then I started to examine the evidence and a funny thing happened—the more I read, the more I realized how misguided my initial assumptions about obesity were.2 While it was ...
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... weight being labeled an “obesity epidemic”? What does it mean to judge our health and well-being by how much we weigh? And what is the real reason we are gaining weight? The answers to these questions came as a great surprise. The. Real.
... weight being labeled an “obesity epidemic”? What does it mean to judge our health and well-being by how much we weigh? And what is the real reason we are gaining weight? The answers to these questions came as a great surprise. The. Real.
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... weight-loss companies and surgeons, it is a way to get their services ... gain from it being classified as a disease. For America's public health ... weight has come to be viewed as an “obesity epidemic” is because of our cultural biases ...
... weight-loss companies and surgeons, it is a way to get their services ... gain from it being classified as a disease. For America's public health ... weight has come to be viewed as an “obesity epidemic” is because of our cultural biases ...
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... weight is only symptomatic. If we want to know why diabetes and other diseases are on the rise in the United States, we need to focus less on the mere fact that our weight ... gain weight, but our cholesterol levels change, our insulin levels ...
... weight is only symptomatic. If we want to know why diabetes and other diseases are on the rise in the United States, we need to focus less on the mere fact that our weight ... gain weight, but our cholesterol levels change, our insulin levels ...
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What Is Fat? | 14 |
How Obesity Became an Epidemic Disease | 36 |
Why We Hate Fat People | 60 |
Women Fat and the Sexual Market | 79 |
Fat Genes and the Obesity Blame Game | 100 |
Food and Weight Gain Super Sized Misperceptions | 122 |
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