The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your HealthPenguin, 2004 - 290 pagina's aCampos makes his case against the afat killsa dogma with unimpeachable evidence. "The Obesity Myth" should be required reading for every health professional in America. I believe any open-minded person who reads this book will conclude that weave been duped by a pack of self-serving lies. And we cannot get at the truth without first recognizing those lies. "The Obesity Myth" is a great place to start.a aGlenn A. Gaesser, Ph.D., professor and director, Kinesiology Program, University of Virginia Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about Americaas aobesity epidemic.a Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary aideal weight.a Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin. After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteriaaand to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale. But "The Obesity Myth" is not just a compelling argument, grounded in the latest scientific research; itas also a provocative, wry exposA(c) of the culture that feeds on our self-defeating war on fat. Campos will show: |
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Inhoudsopgave
Fat on Trial | 3 |
The World Turned Upside Down | 41 |
Fat Culture | 55 |
Lost in the Supermarket | 70 |
The Bimbo Culture | 90 |
All the News Thats Print to Fit | 107 |
Chronic Restrained Living | 119 |
The Athlete Within | 131 |
Life During Wartime | 153 |
Fat Politics | 183 |
Feminist Accused of Unsightly Weight Gain | 199 |
Anorexia Nervosa and the Spirit of Capitalism | 218 |
The Last American Diet | 238 |
Conclusion | 247 |
Notes | 253 |
Body Mass Index Table | 273 |
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The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your ... Paul Campos Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |
The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health Paul Campos Fragmentweergave - 2005 |
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