Weighing in : obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism /
Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She al...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
32. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book. |
| Summary: | Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. 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 in obesity, including environmental toxins. Arguing that ours is a political economy of bulimia--one that promotes consumption while also insisting upon thinness--Guthman offers a complex analysis of our entire economic system. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. Description based on opening page (viewed Sep 20, 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520949751 0520949757 9780520266254 0520266250 9780520266247 0520266242 1283291827 9781283291828 |