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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Toomath, Robyn, author.     Subjects     Obesity -- Social aspects.     Obesity -- Prevention.     Obesity -- Prevention -- Government policy.     Food industry and trade -- Social aspects.     Obesity.     Weight loss.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Toomath, Robyn, author.       by title:      The obesity epidemic...         MARC Display

The obesity epidemic : why diets and exercise don't work -- and what does / Robyn Toomath. by Toomath, Robyn, author. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Subjects Obesity -- Social aspects.   Obesity -- Prevention.   Obesity -- Prevention -- Government policy.   Food industry and trade -- Social aspects.   Obesity.   Weight loss. Description:  210 pages ; 23 cm Notes:  "First published in 2016 by Auckland University Press as Fat science : why diets and exercise don't work - and what does."--Title page verso. Contents:  Part 1: We all want to be thin. Why aren't we? Does dieting work? ; Is exercise the answer? ; Can drugs or surgery make us thin? ; Is fatness inherited? -- Part 2: Why our modern world makes us fat. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating ; How the economies of food puts more of it on our plates ; How we're sold on junk food ; How the overweight are stigmatized -- Part 3: What we can do about it. How governments can flick the switch -- Conclusion: Rise up! -- Epilogue. ISBN:  9781421422497 1421422492 Book Format:    Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   New Jersey State Library Browsing Collection - Level 3 362.196 Too Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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