Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles

by Stephen Kline

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349359203
• ISBN13: 9781349359202
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"