Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity EpidemicOxford University Press, 2005年11月15日 - 240 頁 It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industries, have campaigned to create standards that mislead the public. They mislabel more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," inflate the health risks of being fat, and promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof that obesity causes so much disease and death or that losing weight is what makes people healthier. Our concern with obesity, he writes, is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact. Misinformation pushes millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries, crash diets, and harmful diet drugs, while we ignore other, more real health problems. Oliver goes on to examine why it is that Americans despise fatness and explores why, despite this revulsion, we continue to gain weight. Fat Politics will topple your most basic assumptions about obesity and health. It is essential reading for anyone with a stake in the nation's--or their own--good health. |
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... overweight and only 13 percent were classified as obese, rates not much greater than in 1960. But in the past twentyfive years these numbers have skyrocketed. Today, more than 60 percent of Americans are considered overweight and one in ...
... overweight and only 13 percent were classified as obese, rates not much greater than in 1960. But in the past twentyfive years these numbers have skyrocketed. Today, more than 60 percent of Americans are considered overweight and one in ...
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... fat puts your health in grave danger. However, this, too, is a misperception. Obesity has not been found to be a primary cause of any of these conditions. Yes, heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments are more common among the obese ...
... fat puts your health in grave danger. However, this, too, is a misperception. Obesity has not been found to be a primary cause of any of these conditions. Yes, heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments are more common among the obese ...
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... obesity epidemic.” They have created a very low and arbitrary definition of what is “overweight” and “obese” so that tens of millions of Americans, including archetypes of fitness such as President George Bush or basketball star Michael ...
... obesity epidemic.” They have created a very low and arbitrary definition of what is “overweight” and “obese” so that tens of millions of Americans, including archetypes of fitness such as President George Bush or basketball star Michael ...
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... obesity epidemic. To understand why more than 60 percent of Americans are considered “overweight” and 25 percent “obese,” we need first to understand how these terms are being defined. After all, the very existence of an obesity ...
... obesity epidemic. To understand why more than 60 percent of Americans are considered “overweight” and 25 percent “obese,” we need first to understand how these terms are being defined. After all, the very existence of an obesity ...
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The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic J. Eric Oliver. overweight or obese also goes to the very core of a person's identity. To be overweight is to be, by definition, abnormal or different. By calling people “overweight” or “ ...
The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic J. Eric Oliver. overweight or obese also goes to the very core of a person's identity. To be overweight is to be, by definition, abnormal or different. By calling people “overweight” or “ ...
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How Obesity Became an Epidemic Disease | 36 |
Why We Hate Fat People | 60 |
Women Fat and the Sexual Market | 79 |
Fat Genes and the Obesity Blame Game | 100 |
Food and Weight Gain Super Sized Misperceptions | 122 |
Sloth Capitalism and the Paradox of Freedom | 143 |
Obesity Policy The Fix Is In | 159 |
Unmaking the Obesity Epidemic | 181 |
Notes | 191 |
Index | 220 |
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