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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... television shows such as The Biggest Loser, we are surrounded by messages that fatness is not only unhealthy, but also unsightly and immoral. And who among us doesn't worry, at some time, about weighing too much? Considering all our ...
... television shows such as The Biggest Loser, we are surrounded by messages that fatness is not only unhealthy, but also unsightly and immoral. And who among us doesn't worry, at some time, about weighing too much? Considering all our ...
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... television, and redesign their communities to make walking easier. Once again, however, focusing on driving and television in order to make Americans thinner misses the real, and important, health issue. For the problem with both our ...
... television, and redesign their communities to make walking easier. Once again, however, focusing on driving and television in order to make Americans thinner misses the real, and important, health issue. For the problem with both our ...
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... television provide. It is about making us the ultimate arbiters of what is good for ourselves. The market, in turn, responds by providing us what we want in the most efficient and inexpensive manner. Thus if we want to eat tasty foods ...
... television provide. It is about making us the ultimate arbiters of what is good for ourselves. The market, in turn, responds by providing us what we want in the most efficient and inexpensive manner. Thus if we want to eat tasty foods ...
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... television, and automobiles) are merely accessories to the “crime”; meanwhile, the real source of our growing weight (the free market) goes largely unnoticed. Chapter 8 reviews the politics behind the various obesity initiatives coming ...
... television, and automobiles) are merely accessories to the “crime”; meanwhile, the real source of our growing weight (the free market) goes largely unnoticed. Chapter 8 reviews the politics behind the various obesity initiatives coming ...
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... television; it is not because Americans are eating too much and exercising too little; nor is it because of any “fat” gene within us. The reason why a majority of Americans are overweight is because a nineteenth-century astronomer, a ...
... television; it is not because Americans are eating too much and exercising too little; nor is it because of any “fat” gene within us. The reason why a majority of Americans are overweight is because a nineteenth-century astronomer, a ...
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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