Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 32)
ISBN-13:
9780520266254
ISBN-10:
0520266250
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Julie Guthman
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Paperback
242 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780520266254
ISBN-10:
0520266250
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Julie Guthman
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Paperback
242 pages
Summary
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 32) (ISBN-13: 9780520266254 and ISBN-10: 0520266250), written by authors
Julie Guthman, was published by University of California Press in 2011.
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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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