Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of

Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 32)

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 obesityâ€”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 bulimiaâ€”one that promotes consumption while also insisting upon thinnessâ€”Guthman offers a complex analysis of our entire economic system.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-11-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-11-05
Format	Kindle eBook

Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 32)