TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oliver,J.Eric
TI  - Fat politics: the real story behind America's obesity epidemic 
SN  - 9780195347029
AV  - RA645.O23 O45 2006eb
U1  - 614.5/9398 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Obesity
KW  - United States
KW  - Health
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Prejudices
KW  - Social perception
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - Social Perception
KW  - Obésité
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Santé
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - Préjugés
KW  - Perception sociale
KW  - health
KW  - aat
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Preventive Medicine
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Forensic Medicine
KW  - Public Health
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-219) and index; What is fat? -- How obesity became an epidemic disease -- Why we hate fat people -- Women, fat, and the sexual market -- Fat genes and the obesity blame game -- Food and weight gain: super sized misperceptions -- Sloth, capitalism, and the paradox of freedom -- Obesity policy: the fix is in -- Unmaking the obesity epidemic
N2  - Publisher description for Fat politics : the real story behind America's obesity epidemic / J. Eric Oliver. "Our government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis, that sixty percent of Americans are "overweight," and that one in four is obese. But how true are these claims? In Fat Politics, Eric Oliver unearths the real story behind America's "obesity epidemic." Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industry, have campaigned to misclassify more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," to inflate the health risks of being fat, and to promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof either that obesity causes so many diseases and deaths or that losing weight makes people any healthier. Our concern with obesity is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact. Such misinformation, Oliver argues, is the true problem with obesity in America. By telling us we need to be thin, the proponents of the "obesity epidemic" are pushing millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries, crash diets, and harmful diet drugs. Oliver goes on to examine the surprising reasons why we hate fatness and why we are gaining weight, and also the real threats to our health that are being displaced by our fat obsession. Fat Politics not only topples our most basic assumptions about obesity and health, it highlights frightening dangers caused by making our weight a scapegoat for our real problems."
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