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Book Synopsis
Raising important questions about obesity, Toomath sidesteps the standard sound bites and puts an end to the myth of personal responsibility for body size by focusing on the environment all around us.

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This book reviews the barriers to real, lasting weight loss and what can be done about them, and is recommended for any health collection concerned about weight management.
—Donovan's Bookshelf
The Obesity Epidemic is a concise, evidence-based examination of obesity in the modern world. . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, professionals, and general readers.
—Choice

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1
1. Does dieting work?
2. Is exercise the answer?
3. Can drugs or surgery make us thin?
4. Is fatness inherited?
Part 2
5. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating
6. How the economics of food puts more of it on our plates

The Obesity Epidemic

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    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Publication Date: 25/04/2017
    ISBN13: 9781421422497, 978-1421422497
    ISBN10: 1421422492
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    Obesity: treatment and therapy Public health and preventive medicine

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Raising important questions about obesity, Toomath sidesteps the standard sound bites and puts an end to the myth of personal responsibility for body size by focusing on the environment all around us.

    Trade Review
    This book reviews the barriers to real, lasting weight loss and what can be done about them, and is recommended for any health collection concerned about weight management.
    —Donovan's Bookshelf
    The Obesity Epidemic is a concise, evidence-based examination of obesity in the modern world. . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, professionals, and general readers.
    —Choice

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Part 1
    1. Does dieting work?
    2. Is exercise the answer?
    3. Can drugs or surgery make us thin?
    4. Is fatness inherited?
    Part 2
    5. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating
    6. How the economics of food puts more of it on our plates

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