Understanding Obesity(English, Paperback, Ulijaszek Stanley)

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Understanding Obesity(English, Paperback, Ulijaszek Stanley) is written by Ulijaszek Stanley and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009218212 (ISBN 10) and 9781009218214 (ISBN 13).

Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions.