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Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by J. Eric Oliver

Summary

Our government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis, that sixty percent of Americans are "overweight," and that one in four is obese. But how true are these claims? In Fat Politics, Eric Oliver unearths the real story behind America's "obesity epidemic." Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industry, have campaigned to misclassify more than sixty millionAmericans as "overweight," to inflate the health risks of being fat, and to promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof either that obesity causes so many diseases and deaths or that losing weight makes people anyhealthier. Our concern with obesity is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact...

First line

"Am I fat?"

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  • Title Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic
  • Author J. Eric Oliver
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2006-09-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195313208 / 0195313208
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.15 x 0.63 in (23.60 x 15.62 x 1.60 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 614.593

About the author

J. Eric Oliver is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Democracy in Suburbia and The Paradoxes of Segregation.

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