Planet Obesity: How We're Eating Ourselves and the Planet to Death

by Boyd Swinburne, Garry Egger, Boyd Swinburn

How affluence and the development of new technologies has come at a potentially devastating, cost--an epidemic of obesity and a world clogged by waste Arguing that obesity is not a disease but a signal, two professors who have been at the forefront of health obesity study for over three decades explain why obesity is the canary in the coalmine, which should alert us to bigger structural problems in society. They explain that though economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742373623
• ISBN13: 9781742373621
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"