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Weighing in : obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism

text Weighing in : obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism

Summary
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, eff... Read more
Contents
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 ... Read more
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xi, 227 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of California Press 2011

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 362.196 GUT in Adult Non-fiction Available

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