Understanding obesity:

Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further cont...

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Beteilige Person: Ulijaszek, Stanley J. 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Understanding Life
Understanding life series
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009218184
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009218184
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009218184
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009218184
Zusammenfassung:Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2024)
Im too fat -- Its my genes -- Its my metabolism -- I blame the food corporations -- I blame society -- Youve Only Got Yourself to Blame -- You Eat Too Much -- You Dont Get Out Enough -- Understanding the Imperfect Storm
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 174 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009218184
DOI:10.1017/9781009218184