Weighing In

Author: Julie Guthman
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B005T5O8JU
Category: Medical

Weighing In (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Download Weighing In medical books for free.
Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also focuses the lens of obesity on the broader food system to understand why we produce cheap, over-processed food, as well as why we eat it. Guthman takes issue with the currently touted remedy to obesity-promoting food that is local, organic, and farm fresh. While such fare may be tastier and grown in more ecologically sustainable ways, this approach can also reinforce class and race inequalities and neglect other possible explanations for the rise Get Weighing In our bestseller medical books.

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While such fare may be tastier and grown in more ecologically sustainable ways, this approach can also reinforce class and race inequalities and neglect other possible explanations for the rise

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