| Description |
197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-187) and index. |
| Contents |
Trends in obesity, poverty, and public assistance -- The "public assistance causes obesity" hypothesis -- The "obesity causes public assistance" hypothesis -- The "poverty causes both public assistance and obesity" hypothesis -- The "factor X causes both public assistance and obesity" hypothesis -- Common threads and conclusions. |
| Summary |
This book investigates the controversial claim by welfare critics that public assistance programs like the Food Stamp and National School Lunch programs contribute to obesity among the poor. The author synthesizes empirical evidence from an array of disciplines--anthropology, economics, epidemiology, marketing, medicine, nutrition science, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning--to test this claim and to test whether other causal processes are at work. --from publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Obesity -- United States -- Etiology.
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Obesity. |
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United States. |
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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation. |
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Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Obesity -- Social aspects. |
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Poverty -- Health aspects -- United States.
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Poverty -- Health aspects. |
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Poverty. |
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Public welfare -- United States.
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Public welfare. |
| ISBN |
9780826516367 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780826516350 cloth alkaline paper |
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0826516351 cloth alkaline paper |
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082651636X paperback alkaline paper |
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