Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity EpidemicOxford University Press, 15. 11. 2005 - Počet stran: 240 It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industries, have campaigned to create standards that mislead the public. They mislabel more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," inflate the health risks of being fat, and promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof that obesity causes so much disease and death or that losing weight is what makes people healthier. Our concern with obesity, he writes, is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact. Misinformation pushes millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries, crash diets, and harmful diet drugs, while we ignore other, more real health problems. Oliver goes on to examine why it is that Americans despise fatness and explores why, despite this revulsion, we continue to gain weight. Fat Politics will topple your most basic assumptions about obesity and health. It is essential reading for anyone with a stake in the nation's--or their own--good health. |
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... Weight Gain: Super Sized Misperceptions 122 Sloth, Capitalism, and the Paradox of Freedom 143 Obesity Policy: The Fix Is In 159 Unmaking the Obesity Epidemic 181 Notes 191 Index 220 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments ...
... Weight Gain: Super Sized Misperceptions 122 Sloth, Capitalism, and the Paradox of Freedom 143 Obesity Policy: The Fix Is In 159 Unmaking the Obesity Epidemic 181 Notes 191 Index 220 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments ...
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... weight, an obesity epidemic inflates their stature and allows them to get ... gain from it being classified as a disease. For America's public health ... weight has come to be viewed as an “obesity epidemic” is because of our cultural ...
... weight, an obesity epidemic inflates their stature and allows them to get ... gain from it being classified as a disease. For America's public health ... weight has come to be viewed as an “obesity epidemic” is because of our cultural ...
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... (weight loss has not, by itself, been shown to improve most people's health or reduce the risk of most diseases), but ... gain weight, but our cholesterol levels change, our insulin levels rise, and our blood pressure increases. And it is ...
... (weight loss has not, by itself, been shown to improve most people's health or reduce the risk of most diseases), but ... gain weight, but our cholesterol levels change, our insulin levels rise, and our blood pressure increases. And it is ...
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... weight, which is only likely to make them more miserable and possibly do ... gain a disease. In other words, if we are to change our thinking about fat ... weight has come to be characterized as an “obesity epidemic.” Chapters 1 and 2 ...
... weight, which is only likely to make them more miserable and possibly do ... gain a disease. In other words, if we are to change our thinking about fat ... weight has come to be characterized as an “obesity epidemic.” Chapters 1 and 2 ...
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... gaining weight and what this weight gain signifies. Chapter 5 looks at the science of fat and what the genetic sources of weight tell us about our expanding waistlines and our health. Chapters 6 and 7 review the charges and evidence ...
... gaining weight and what this weight gain signifies. Chapter 5 looks at the science of fat and what the genetic sources of weight tell us about our expanding waistlines and our health. Chapters 6 and 7 review the charges and evidence ...
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How Obesity Became an Epidemic Disease | 36 |
Why We Hate Fat People | 60 |
Women Fat and the Sexual Market | 79 |
Fat Genes and the Obesity Blame Game | 100 |
Food and Weight Gain Super Sized Misperceptions | 122 |
Sloth Capitalism and the Paradox of Freedom | 143 |
Obesity Policy The Fix Is In | 159 |
Unmaking the Obesity Epidemic | 181 |
Notes | 191 |
Index | 220 |
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