An Epidemic Of Obesity Myths
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Publisher | : Center for Consumer Freedom |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Obesity |
ISBN | : 0977438007 |
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Publisher | : Center for Consumer Freedom |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Obesity |
ISBN | : 0977438007 |
Author | : Paul F. Campos |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781592400669 |
An exploration of America's self-defeating war on obesity argues against the myth that falsely equates thinness with health and explains why dieting is bad for the health and how the media misinform the public.
Author | : Harriet Brown |
Publisher | : Da Capo Lifelong Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0738217697 |
A science journalist's provocative exploration of how biology, psychology, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies, while also tackling the myths and realities of the "obesity epidemic."
Author | : Michael Gard |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780415318969 |
In a broad ranging review of current thinking on obesity, the authors criticise much of the existing research for being biased by ideological and moral assumptions.
Author | : Paul Campos |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2004-05-03 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 110121659X |
Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about America’s "obesity epidemic." Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary "ideal weight." Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin. After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteria—and to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale. But The Obesity Myth is not just a compelling argument, grounded in the latest scientific research; it’s also a provocative, wry exposé of the culture that feeds on our self-defeating war on fat. Campos will show: How the nation’s most prestigious and trusted media sources consistently misinform the public about obesity What the movie industry’s love affair with the "fat suit" tells us about the relationship between racial- and body-based prejudice in America How the skinny elite—with their "supersized" lifestyles and gas-guzzling SUVs—project their anxieties about overconsumption on the poorer and heavier underclass How weight-loss mania fueled the impeachment of Bill Clinton In this paradigm-busting read, Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political, and cultural meaning of weight and brings a rational and compelling new voice to America’s increasingly irrational weight debate.
Author | : Paul Campos |
Publisher | : Viking |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body image |
ISBN | : 9780670042845 |
Every day we are bombarded with dire warnings about the 'obesity epidemic'. A large percentage of the adult population is obsessed with dieting. Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin by sedentary.After years scrutinising medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating-disorder specialists and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos here leads the backlash against weight hysteria and shows that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scales.The Obesity Myth is not just a compelling argument grounded in scientific research, it is also an expose of the billion-dollar weight-loss industry and the culture that feeds our self-defeating war on fat. Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political and cultural meanings behind the current weight debate.
Author | : Zoe Harcombe |
Publisher | : Columbus Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1907797289 |
We want to be slim more than anything else in the world, so why do we have an obesity epidemic? If the solution is as simple as ‘eat less and do more’, why are 90% of today’s children facing a fat future? What if the current diet advice is not right? What if trying to eat less is making us fatter? What if everything we thought we knew about dieting is wrong? This is, in fact, the case. This book will de-bunk every diet myth there is and change the course of The Obesity Epidemic. This is going to be a ground breaking journey, shattering every preconception about dieting and turning current advice upside down. Did you know that we did a U-Turn in our diet advice thirty years ago? Obesity has increased ten fold since – coincidence or cause? Discover why we changed our advice and what is stopping us changing it back; discover the involvement of the food industry in our weight loss advice; discover how long we have known that eating less and doing more can never work and discover what will work instead. There is a way to lose weight and keep it off, but the first thing you must do is to throw away everything you think you know about dieting. Because everything you think you know is actually wrong. The diet advice we are being given, far from being the cure of the obesity epidemic, is, in fact, the cause.
Author | : Robyn Toomath |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1421422492 |
Drawing on the latest research and twenty years of working with overweight patients, this short and punchy book dispels myths and tells the tough truths about our obesity epidemic. Toomath shows how our modern world is making us fat. And while governments and individuals keep trying things that science shows do not work, she outlines what just might make a difference in ending the obesity epidemic.
Author | : Gina Tsichlia |
Publisher | : M&K Update Ltd |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Body image |
ISBN | : 1907830391 |
In a consumerist society obsessed with body image and thinness, obesity levels have reached an all-time high. This multi-faceted book written by a range of experts, explores the social, cultural, clinical and psychological factors that lie behind the OCyObesity EpidemicOCO. It is required reading for the many healthcare professionals dealing with the effects of obesity and for anyone who wants to know more about the causes of weight gain and the best ways of dealing with it.Fat Matters covers a range of issues from sociology through medicine to technology. This is not a book for the highly specialised expert. Rather it is a book that shows the diversity of approaches to the phenomenon of obesity, tailored to the reader who wants to be up-to-date and well-informed on a subject that is possibly as frequently discussed and as misunderstood as the weather."
Author | : David W. Haslam |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2013-12-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1447128346 |
This book explores the pathophysiology, clinical assessment and management of the obese patient in the context of serious chronic disease, as well as the political and environmental aspects, including prevention. The book's approach of arriving at an exploration of these issues through the vehicle of assessing the controversies is unique and interesting, attempting to debunk the myths and explore the genuine science whilst demonstrating areas where healthy debate is rife.