Author : Stephen Kline
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230304745
This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles.
Author : Philip Mills
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : 9781869418540
One of the most significant books to have been written by a New Zealand business leader. Phillip Mills, the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year and a global exporter of fitness programmes to 71 countries, has spent the last year forming his views on health and fitness and sustainability into an engaging and challenging book, Fighting Globesity. All New Zealanders should read it. As Phillip jokes, "What would a couple of gym bunnies know about climate change and sustainability?" As it turns out, rather a lot. Phillip has done wide reading and research in this area over the last few years. From that he has distilled a carefully argued message: we need to get fit and stay fit, we need to consume fewer resources, we need to urgently engage with health and climate change issues - and we can make a difference. In this he may well be a step ahead of many other business thinkers. Accompanied by exercise and training programmes, nutritional information, recipes and more, FIGHTING GLOBESITY is a perfect health, fitness and philosophy package. FIGHTING GLOBESITY - A Practical Guide To Personal Health And Global Sustainability combines the Mills's experience to create a cutting-edge lifestyle prescription which will be sustainable for both the individual and the planet.
Author : Francis Delpeuch
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849771472
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 074565875X
The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting. This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day. He looks critically at the source of our anxieties, covering issues such as childhood obesity, the production of food, media coverage of the subject and the emergence of obesity in modern China. Written as a cultural history, the book is particularly concerned with the cultural meanings that have been attached to obesity over time and to explore the implications of these meanings for wider society. The history of these debates is the history of fat in culture, from nineteenth-century opera to our global dieting obsession. Fat, A Cultural History of Obesity is a vivid and absorbing cultural guide to one of the most important topics in modern society.
Author : Frank Patino
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781467566124
Author : Stephen Kline
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230537408
This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles.
Author : Melissa Zimdars
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813593565
Winner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Food Writing Section, USA Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. While television—especially reality television—is typically understood to promote individual self-discipline and expert interventions as necessary for transforming fat bodies into thin bodies, fat representations and narratives on television also create space for alternative as well as resistant discourses of the body. Melissa Zimdars thus examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness, and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favor of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body. Watching Our Weights weaves together analyses of media industry lore and decisions, communication and health policies, medical research, activist projects, popular culture, and media texts to establish both how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.
Author : Monica M. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319689789
This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective. Examining the populations that suffer the greatest from political and economic decision-making associated with obesity prevalence, this book utilizes a contemporary framework to discuss obesity. While it does examine the behavioral risks associated with rising obesity rates, it also explores the political level, by evaluating theories in social justice and the political economy that foster or restrict at-risk behaviors. It considers the economic context through rising income inequality levels in the US. It also critiques the actions of higher institutions, including transnational corporations, as social contributors to this epidemic. Finally, it compares global and national challenges of the epidemic.
Author : Harris Solomon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822374447
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic illness in India and beyond.
Author : Jesús Alberto García-García
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1000913147
Achieving integral health is a challenge that necessitates a diversified approach from different disciplines to achieve a coordinated impact on people’s health. Food and nutrition form an essential part of this approach. This new book explores some important advances in the role of nutrition in integral health and quality of life, laying special emphasis on the challenges that humans face in this era of sedentary lifestyles, diseases associated with food consumption, and social, economic, environmental, and cultural crises. The volume discusses interdisciplinary approaches to nutrition, focusing on nutrition for children, the impact of nutrition on chronic noncommunicable diseases and gastrointestinal disorders, the nutritional profile of fermented foods and their health benefits, microstructured particles as bioactive compound carriers, and more. The book also offers an analysis of obesity and its dimensions, covering childhood obesity risks and challenges at home and at school, quality of life in adult patients with diabetes, the role of genetics and epigenetics in obesity, and more. The impact of nutrition on oral and dental health is also addressed in the book.
