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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... important, Lynn McAfee, a long-time fat activist and perpetual thorn in the side of the obesity research community. Although not a formally trained scientist, Lynn knows more about obesity than most “experts” and has a clearer ...
... important, Lynn McAfee, a long-time fat activist and perpetual thorn in the side of the obesity research community. Although not a formally trained scientist, Lynn knows more about obesity than most “experts” and has a clearer ...
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... important for one's health. Then there is all the information we get in the media about obesity's dangers—hardly a week goes by without some new story about another health problem that purportedly comes from being too fat. From fashion ...
... important for one's health. Then there is all the information we get in the media about obesity's dangers—hardly a week goes by without some new story about another health problem that purportedly comes from being too fat. From fashion ...
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... important problem. Newspaper headlines across the country trumpeted how obesity would soon overtake smoking as the number one cause of preventable death in America. A closer look at the numbers, however, shows that they don't add up ...
... important problem. Newspaper headlines across the country trumpeted how obesity would soon overtake smoking as the number one cause of preventable death in America. A closer look at the numbers, however, shows that they don't add up ...
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... important of these is America's public health establishment. Over the past two decades, a handful of scientists, doctors, and health officials have actively campaigned to define our growing weight as an “obesity epidemic.” They have ...
... important of these is America's public health establishment. Over the past two decades, a handful of scientists, doctors, and health officials have actively campaigned to define our growing weight as an “obesity epidemic.” They have ...
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... important, health issue. For the problem with both our unhealthy diet and inactivity goes beyond how much junk food we eat, TV we watch, or miles we drive; the problem is with the very principles that define us as a society. Snacking ...
... important, health issue. For the problem with both our unhealthy diet and inactivity goes beyond how much junk food we eat, TV we watch, or miles we drive; the problem is with the very principles that define us as a society. Snacking ...
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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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