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

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

Guthman, Julie

Paperback

Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, Book 32

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520266250
ISBN13: 9780520266254
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 5 2011
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 the currently touted remedy to obesity--promoting food that is local, organic, and farm fresh. While such fare may be tastier and grown in more ecologically sustainable ways, this approach can also reinforce class and race inequalities and neglect other possible explanations for the rise in obesity, including environmental toxins. Arguing that ours is a political economy of bulimia--one that promotes consumption while also insisting upon thinness--Guthman offers a complex analysis of our entire economic system.

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