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Author: Alexandra A. Brewis
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0813548918
Category: Medical

Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives (Studies in Medical Anthropology)

In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. Download Obesity medical books for free.
In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition.

Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and Get Obesity our bestseller medical books.

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In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized

Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and

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