Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity EpidemicOxford University Press, 15/11/2005 - 240 páginas 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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... companies. In the course of my interviews, Istarted hearing stories about contradictory research that was hushed-up, bogus numbers being reported by health agencies, and shifty “scientific” organizations that were no more than fronts ...
... companies. In the course of my interviews, Istarted hearing stories about contradictory research that was hushed-up, bogus numbers being reported by health agencies, and shifty “scientific” organizations that were no more than fronts ...
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... companies and surgeons, it is a way to get their services covered by Medicare and health insurance providers. And, for pharmaceutical companies it can justify the release of new drugs, and help inflate their stock prices. The very same ...
... companies and surgeons, it is a way to get their services covered by Medicare and health insurance providers. And, for pharmaceutical companies it can justify the release of new drugs, and help inflate their stock prices. The very same ...
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... companies as with the proposed restrictions on food advertisements and taxes on snack foods. As a result, we now have a curious combination of laws that simultaneously forbid people from suing restaurants for making them fat but also ...
... companies as with the proposed restrictions on food advertisements and taxes on snack foods. As a result, we now have a curious combination of laws that simultaneously forbid people from suing restaurants for making them fat but also ...
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... companies, government, and diet industry in promulgating the idea that our growing weight is a dangerous disease. After reviewing both the scientific evidence and the history of “obesity” as a health concept, it becomes clear that ...
... companies, government, and diet industry in promulgating the idea that our growing weight is a dangerous disease. After reviewing both the scientific evidence and the history of “obesity” as a health concept, it becomes clear that ...
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... —the insurance industry. For years, life insurance companies had been desperately trying to find mechanisms that would predict early deaths. In the early 1900s, when medical technology was still crude, | Fat Politics 18.
... —the insurance industry. For years, life insurance companies had been desperately trying to find mechanisms that would predict early deaths. In the early 1900s, when medical technology was still crude, | Fat Politics 18.
Índice
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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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