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Author Mitchinson, Wendy, author

Title Fighting fat : Canada, 1920-1980 / Wendy Mitchinson
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 433 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Nutrition Policy: "Dietetic Missionaries"; 2 About Obesity; 3 Causes of Obesity; 4 Treatment: "Stubbornly Resistant"; 5 "Dietary Drugland" and Surgery; 6 Infant, Child, and Teen Obesity; 7 Body Image; 8 Narratives of Fat Canadians; Epilogue; Notes on Sources; Journal Abbreviations; Notes; Index
Summary Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Obesity -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination against overweight persons -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Obesity -- Canada -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century
Obesity -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Overweight persons -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Overweight persons -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Obesity -- history
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
Discrimination against overweight persons
Obesity
Obesity -- Psychological aspects
Obesity -- Social aspects
Overweight persons
Diät
Ernährungswissenschaft
Übergewicht
SUBJECT Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170
Subject Canada
Kanada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487518264
1487518269