· 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, o Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences/5. · Guthman’s Weighing In is a much-needed critical analysis of the dominant discourse surrounding the so-called “obesity epidemic”. By examining nutritional, medical, political, and capitalist contributions to what has essentially become a non-debate, Guthman explains how the public came to speciously conceptualize obesity as a product of inadequate nutritional education, poor personal Cited by: 1. · Linked In. Reddit. Wechat. Guthman, J. Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism. USA Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, , £ (pbk) xi+ pp. ISBN: The putative obesity problem continues to generate concern and debate, with an eclectic mix of scholars ‘weighing in’ on this www.doorway.ru: Lee F. Monaghan.
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism - Julie Guthman - Google Books 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. Julie Guthman is a professor of social sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research has broadly been about how neoliberal-inflected capitalism shapes the conditions of possibility for food system transformation. She has also studied the influence of California's agrarian past on contemporary efforts to reduce pesticide use. Guthman, J. Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of www.doorway.ru Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, , £ (pbk) xi+ www.doorway.ru: The putative obesity problem continues to generate concern and debate, with an eclectic mix of scholars 'weighing in' on this topic.
Weighing. In. By. Julie. Guthman. In this daring book, Julie Guthman peels back layers of entrenched thought on “obesity” and its “epidemic” extent, showing how “problem closure” has propelled science and debate into inaccurate and harmful cul-de-sacs. Julie Guthman: Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, , pp, ISBN Amy K. Coplen. Amy K. Coplen. is a recent graduate of the Master of Environmental Management program at Yale University where she studied food systems and the role of community. 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, o Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences.
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