Understanding Obesity

by Stanley Ulijaszek

Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009218212
• ISBN13: 9781009218214
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.0"