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Title:
Weighing In : Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism.
Author:
Guthman, Julie.
ISBN:
9780520949751

9780520266254

9780520266247

9781283291828
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (242 pages).
Series:
California studies in food and culture ; 32

California studies in food and culture ; 32.
Abstract:
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 also focuses the lens of obesity on the broader food system to understand why we produce cheap, over-processed food, as well as why we eat it. Guthman takes issue with the currently touted remedy to obesity--promoting food that is local, organic, and farm fresh. While such fare may be tastier and grown in more ecologicall.
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