ISBN:
9780520286818
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9780520961906 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
248 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan ProQuest Online-Ressource ISBN 9780520961906
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
California Studies in Food and Culture v.57
DDC:
394.1/2097281
Abstract:
A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss-but much goes awry as ideas move from policy boardrooms and clinics into everyday life. Based on years of intensive fieldwork, The Weight of Obesity offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets-and their bodies-radically transformed. Anthropologist Em...
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Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
