Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

by Harris Solomon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361019
• ISBN13: 9780822361015
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"