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

by Julie Guthman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520266250
• ISBN13: 9780520266254
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"