The weight of obesity : hunger and global health in postwar Guatemala /

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...

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Hlavní autor: Yates-Doerr, Emily, 1978- (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2015]
Edice:California studies in food and culture ; 57.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1963273
Obsah:
  • Introduction : the richness of eating
  • Disease of modernities
  • Nutritional black-boxing
  • Care of the social
  • Contemporary body counts
  • Bodies in balance
  • Many values of health
  • Conclusion : the opposite of obesity : re-forming the body in global health.