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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Weighing in
    sub title: obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism
  name:
    name part: Guthman, Julie.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Ebooks.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : maps.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction : what's the problem? -- How do we know obesity Is a problem? -- Whose problem Is obesity? -- Does your neighborhood make you fat? -- Does eating (too much) make you fat? -- Does farm policy make you fat? -- Will fresh, local, organic food make you thin? -- What's capitalism got to do with it? -- Conclusion : what's on the menu?
  note: Julie Guthman.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Description based on opening page (viewed Sep 20, 2017).
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Obesity
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Obesity
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Problems
  classification: RA645.O23
  classification: WD 210 G984 2011eb
  related item:
    title info:
      title: California studies in food and culture ; 32
  identifier: 9780520949751
  identifier: 0520949757
  identifier: 9780520266254
  identifier: 0520266250
  identifier: 9780520266247
  identifier: 0520266242
  identifier: 1283291827
  identifier: 9781283291828
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 111010
    record change date: 20190418084906.0
    record identifier: in00004526437
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng