TY  - GEN
T1  - The weight of obesity : hunger and global health in postwar Guatemala
T2  - California studies in food and culture ;
A1  - Yates-Doerr, Emily, 1978-
LA  - English
PP  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn918941471
AB  - 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 Emily Yates-Doerr challenges the widespread view that health can be measured in calories and pounds, offering an innovative understanding of what it means to be healthy in postcolonial Latin America. Through vivid descriptions of how people reject global standards and embrace fatness as desirable, this book interferes with contemporary biomedicine, adding depth to how we theorize structural violence. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating.
CN  - TX360.G9 Y38 2015eb
SN  - 9780520961906
SN  - 0520961900
SN  - 9780520286818
SN  - 9780520286825
SN  - 0520286812
SN  - 0520286820
KW  - Ernährung.
KW  - Diet : Guatemala.
KW  - Obesity : Guatemala.
KW  - Obesity : Social aspects : Guatemala.
KW  - Food consumption : Guatemala.
KW  - Food habits : Guatemala.
KW  - Nutrition policy.
KW  - Obesity : psychology
KW  - Diet : psychology
KW  - Feeding Behavior : psychology
KW  - Nutrition Policy
KW  - Obesity : prevention & control
KW  - Guatemala
KW  - Alimentation : Guatemala.
KW  - Obésité : Guatemala.
KW  - Obésité : Aspect social : Guatemala.
KW  - Aliments : Consommation : Guatemala.
KW  - Habitudes alimentaires : Guatemala.
KW  - Politique alimentaire.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE/Customs & Traditions.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE /Agriculture & Food.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : General.
KW  - Nutrition policy
KW  - Diet
KW  - Food consumption
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Obesity : Social aspects
KW  - Ernährungsgewohnheit
KW  - Ernährungskrankheit
KW  - Fettsucht
KW  - Übergewicht
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Kulturanthropologie
KW  - Matvanor.
KW  - Övervikt : sociala aspekter.
KW  - contemporary biomedicine.
KW  - diabetes.
KW  - diet in guatemala.
KW  - fat studies.
KW  - fatness.
KW  - food habits guatemala.
KW  - global health.
KW  - guatemalan diet.
KW  - guatemalan health.
KW  - health and medicine.
KW  - health impacts of obesity.
KW  - healthy eating.
KW  - healthy food habits.
KW  - healthy guatemala.
KW  - healthy latin america.
KW  - high blood pressure.
KW  - hypertension.
KW  - international food studies.
KW  - latin american health.
KW  - nutrition.
KW  - obesity.
KW  - overweight.
KW  - policing food.
KW  - politics of food.
KW  - postcolonial latin america.
ER  -