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Author Solomon, Harris, 1979- author.

Title Metabolic living : food, fat and the absorption of illness in India / Harris Solomon
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
Critical global health.
Contents Interlude birthday cakes -- The thin-fat Indian -- Mango madness -- The taste no chef can give -- The ration card -- Readying the home -- Stamps -- Lines of therapy -- Waiting room walls -- Gut attachments -- Metabolic Mumbai
Summary In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index
Notes English
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Subject Obesity -- India
Lipids in human nutrition -- India
Food habits -- India
Malnutrition -- India
Convenience foods -- India
Metabolism.
Obesity.
Food habits.
Malnutrition.
Obesity
Feeding Behavior
Malnutrition
Metabolism
metabolism (biological concept)
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Convenience foods
Food habits
Lipids in human nutrition
Malnutrition
Metabolism
Obesity
India
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822374442
0822374447