Description |
xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-219) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Subject |
Obesity -- United States.
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Obesity. |
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United States. |
ISBN |
0195169360 cloth alkaline paper |
Standard No. |
9780195169362 |
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