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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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2015]
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| Saila: | California studies in food and culture ;
57. |
| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1963273 |
Aurkibidea:
- 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.