Food Choice and Obesity in Black America: Creating a New Cultural Diet

by Eric J. Bailey

Book Overview

Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865693307
• ISBN13: 9780865693302
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"