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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guthman, Julie
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 32.
Subjects:
Obesity > Social aspects.
Obesity > psychology.
Social Problems.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.

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