| Description |
xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
What is fat? -- How obesity became an epidemic disease -- Why we hate fat people -- Women, fat, and the sexual market -- Fat genes and the obesity blame game -- Food and weight gain: super sized misperceptions -- Sloth, capitalism, and the paradox of freedom -- Obesity policy: the fix is in -- Unmaking the obesity epidemic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-219) and index |
| Subject |
Obesity -- United States.
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Obesity.
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Health.
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Health Policy.
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Prejudice.
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Social Perception.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
2005012983 |
| ISBN |
0195169360 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780195169362 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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