Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity EpidemicOxford University Press, 15.11.2005 - 240 Seiten 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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... example, recently proclaimed that “being overweight significantly increases the risk of a long list of medical complaints including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, depression, deep-vein ...
... example, recently proclaimed that “being overweight significantly increases the risk of a long list of medical complaints including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, depression, deep-vein ...
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... example, what an obesity epidemic means for the following groups. For scientists researching issues of weight, an obesity epidemic inflates their stature and allows them to get more research grants. For government health agencies, it is ...
... example, what an obesity epidemic means for the following groups. For scientists researching issues of weight, an obesity epidemic inflates their stature and allows them to get more research grants. For government health agencies, it is ...
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... example, the contradictory policies coming out of Washington and various state legislatures. Either they assume that body weight is solely a matter of individual responsibility, as with the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption ...
... example, the contradictory policies coming out of Washington and various state legislatures. Either they assume that body weight is solely a matter of individual responsibility, as with the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption ...
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... example, like to blame our gluttony on the extra-large portion sizes in restaurants and supermarkets— and with a super size value meal weighing in at 1,500 calories it is easy to see why fast-food has been cast as such a villain. But ...
... example, like to blame our gluttony on the extra-large portion sizes in restaurants and supermarkets— and with a super size value meal weighing in at 1,500 calories it is easy to see why fast-food has been cast as such a villain. But ...
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... example, much of the recent decline in deaths from heart disease and other ailments, as well as our improved quality of life, have come from simple and undemanding treatments. Sometimes, alleviating unwanted symptoms of an unhealthy ...
... example, much of the recent decline in deaths from heart disease and other ailments, as well as our improved quality of life, have come from simple and undemanding treatments. Sometimes, alleviating unwanted symptoms of an unhealthy ...
Inhalt
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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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