Understanding Obesity
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2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-21821-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-21821-4 (ISBN)
Written for a general audience who are interested in or are concerned about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. It unpacks the complexity of obesity, and why it has proven impossible to fix, using perspectives from biology, social science, public policy, medicine and public health.
Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions.
Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions.
Stanley Ulijaszek is an anthropologist studying obesity from evolutionary and cultural perspectives. He has undertaken research internationally, in both the Global North and South. He is Director of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO), University of Oxford, which focuses on cultural and policy aspects of body fatness and obesity.
1. I'm too fat; 2. It's my genes; 3. It's my metabolism; 4. I blame the food corporations; 5. I blame society; 6. You've only got yourself to blame; 7. You eat too much; 8. You don't get out enough; 9. Understanding the imperfect storm; Summary of common misunderstandings; References; Figure credits; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Understanding Life |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-21821-2 / 1009218212 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-21821-4 / 9781009218214 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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