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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... thin and heavy people using data that were nearly thirty years old. Although heavier people tend to die more frequently than people in mid-range weights, it is by no means clear that their weight is the cause of their higher death rates ...
... thin and heavy people using data that were nearly thirty years old. Although heavier people tend to die more frequently than people in mid-range weights, it is by no means clear that their weight is the cause of their higher death rates ...
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... motor accidents to air pollution. And, most important, they have established body weight as a barometer of wellness, so that being thin is equated with being healthy. Now some of this campaign has been motivated by good Introduction | 5.
... motor accidents to air pollution. And, most important, they have established body weight as a barometer of wellness, so that being thin is equated with being healthy. Now some of this campaign has been motivated by good Introduction | 5.
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... thin rightly deserve their place at the top of the social ladder. Given all the negative associations we heap on our fatness, it is no wonder our growing weight is seen as a cause for alarm across the political spectrum. For some on the ...
... thin rightly deserve their place at the top of the social ladder. Given all the negative associations we heap on our fatness, it is no wonder our growing weight is seen as a cause for alarm across the political spectrum. For some on the ...
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... thin. Thus, when the filmmaker Morgan Spurlock sneers at the black kids who actually like McDonald's food in his film Super Size Me or the writer Greg Critser derides the Latinos at his local donut shop in his book Fat Land, it is not ...
... thin. Thus, when the filmmaker Morgan Spurlock sneers at the black kids who actually like McDonald's food in his film Super Size Me or the writer Greg Critser derides the Latinos at his local donut shop in his book Fat Land, it is not ...
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... thin. Not only is such a message inaccurate (weight loss has not, by itself, been shown to improve most people's health or reduce the risk of most diseases), but it ignores the real threats to our health of which our weight is only ...
... thin. Not only is such a message inaccurate (weight loss has not, by itself, been shown to improve most people's health or reduce the risk of most diseases), but it ignores the real threats to our health of which our weight is only ...
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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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