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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
      Published 25 April 2017
      ISBN-13 9781421422497
      978-1421422497
      ISBN-10 1421422492
      Also in:
      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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