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Paperback Weighing in: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism Volume 32 Book

ISBN: 0520266250

ISBN13: 9780520266254

Weighing in: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism Volume 32

(Book #32 in the California Studies in Food and Culture Series)

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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...

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