Weighty Issues

Author : Jeffery Sobal,Donna Maurer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1412841267

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Weighty Issues by Jeffery Sobal,Donna Maurer Pdf

Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem; when, then, does body weight become a social problem? Until recently, the major public concern was whether enough food was consistently available. As food systems began to provide ample and stable amounts of food, questions about food availability were replaced with concerns about "ideal" weights and appearance. These interests were aggregated into public concerns about defining people as "too fat" and "too thin." Social constructionist perspectives can contribute to the understanding of weight problems because they focus attention on how these problems are created, maintained, and promoted within various social environments. While there is much objectivist research concerning weight problems, few studies address the socially constructed aspects of fatness and thinness. This book however draws from and contributes to social constructionist perspectives. The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness. The contributors consider historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives. These different perspectives illustrate the multifaceted nature of obesity and eating disorders, providing examples of how a variety of social groups construct weight as a social problem. Jeffery Sobal is Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. He is on the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and he has Cornell University Graduate Field Membership in the areas of Nutrition, Development Sociology and Epidemiology. Donna Maurer is John S. Knight Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing Program, Cornell University. She also serves on the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland University College. Drs. Sobal and Maurer are coeditors of a companion volume, Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, and Eating Agendas: Food and Nutrition as Social Problems

Author : Jeffery Sobal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351328272

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Weighty Issues by Jeffery Sobal Pdf

First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Laura Backstrom
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813599137

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Weighty Problems by Laura Backstrom Pdf

Many parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.

Author : Jeffery Sobal,Donna Maurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Food
ISBN : LCCN:2012021256

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Weighty Issues by Jeffery Sobal,Donna Maurer Pdf

Author : Val Serbalik
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781477123201

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Solution to the Country's Weighty Problems by Val Serbalik Pdf

Solution to the Country’s Weighty Problems: The Body Mass Index Reduction Program, (BMIRP) is a tongue in cheek book with hilarious illustrations suggesting the enactment of a federally mandated weight -reduction program to address the obesity epidemic in the U.S. The author presented in 2012 components of the program which have since been implemented by various governmental agencies and airlines, including charging fees based upon weight and Body Mass .and restrictions on access to facilities to those with excessive Body Mass He brings to the forefront problems, such as: debt and budget crisis, threatening national bankruptcy; trade deficit; reliance upon foreign oil, and its economic and national security threats; global warming, environmental pollution, energy conservation; out of control health care costs and declining health; corpulence and enhanced weight epidemic; and deteriorating national infrastructure. For less than the cost of a trip to the Golden Corral or other comparable “all- you- can- eat” buffet restaurant, or the cost of a “Big Mac” or “Whopper” with fries, the reader is exposed to a pragmatic, innovative, comprehensive, non-political, non-idealogical program to address the nation’s monumental problems.

Author : Laura Backstrom
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780813599113

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Weighty Problems by Laura Backstrom Pdf

By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.

Author : Scott A. Cunneen,Nancy Sayles Kaneshiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1610615239

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Weighty Issues by Scott A. Cunneen,Nancy Sayles Kaneshiro Pdf

A noted surgeon, who has performed thousands of weight-loss operations at a world-renowned medical center, addresses common questions about the different types of weight-loss surgeries, what can be expected with each, and what kind of commitment and lifestyle change is expected with each.

Author : Michael Fumento
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : CHI:62148681

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The Fat of the Land by Michael Fumento Pdf

In this thinking person's guide to weight loss, Fumento exposes the diet industry for what it is, explodes the myths of genetics and low metabolism, and dismisses the low-fat-food fib, showing how "lite" is loaded with unwanted calories and "non-fat" makes us fatter.

Author : Jeffery Sobal Donna Maurer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Food
ISBN : 020236691X

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Interpreting Weight by Jeffery Sobal Donna Maurer Pdf

Sociologists, psychologists, and nutritionists explore how people construct fatness and thinness. They examine different strategies used to interpret body weight, such as negotiating weight identities, reinterpreting weight, and becoming involved in weight-related organizations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Katariina Kyrölä
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317011705

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The Weight of Images by Katariina Kyrölä Pdf

The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers’ bodies. Proposing a shift away from an understanding of spectatorship as being constituted by acts of the mind, this book favours a theorization of relations between bodies and images as visceral, affective engagements that shape our body image - with close attention to one particularly charged bodily characteristic in contemporary western culture: fat. The first mapping of the ways in which fat, gendered bodies are represented across a variety of media forms and genres, from reality television to Hollywood movies, from TV sitcoms to documentaries, from print magazine and news media to online pornography, The Weight of Images contends that media images of fat bodies are never only about fat; rather, they are about our relation to corporeal vulnerability overall. A ground-breaking volume, engaging with a rich variety of media and cultural texts, whilst examining the possibilities of critical auto-ethnography to unravel how body images take shape affectively between bodies and images, this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, media, cultural and gender studies, with interests in embodiment and affect.

Author : Richard Scrimger
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770498440

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Downside Up by Richard Scrimger Pdf

Fred is a sixth-grader reeling from the loss of his beloved dog, Casey. Every day he walks home from school bouncing Casey's old worn-out tennis ball. One day, the ball falls down a sewer grate, and Fred can't bear to leave it down there. He pries open the grate and stumbles down. Through the sewer, Fred enters a parallel universe: Casey is alive, his mom and sister are happier, and there's a version of Fred who's happier too. Spending time with Casey, Fred feels joy for the first time since his dog's death, but he slowly realizes that the loss of Casey is masking an even greater loss: the death of Fred's father. Fred brings his sister, Izzy, to this upside-down world of lost things in the hope of finding their father and bringing him back. Can everything that is lost be found again?

Author : Brant Hansen
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493421473

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The Truth about Us by Brant Hansen Pdf

What would happen if you admitted you weren't a good person? It's a seemingly crazy question. From priests to prisoners, nearly everyone thinks they're morally better than average. Why change our minds? Why admit the truth about ourselves? In his conversational, fun-to-read, and delightfully self-effacing style, Brant Hansen shows us why we should fight our drive to be self-righteous: it's breathtakingly freeing. What's more, just admitting that we're profoundly biased toward ourselves and want desperately to preserve our "rightness" at all costs even helps us think better, make better decisions, be better listeners, and improve our relationships with God and others. Hansen draws from biblical insight and the work of everyone from esteemed social psychologists to comedians to make his point: the sooner we get over ourselves, give up the "I'm good" internal dialogue, and admit the truth, the sooner we can live a more lighthearted, fruitful, fun-loving life. This book is about the freedom of childlike humility. After all, as Hansen writes, the humble life is truly your best one.

Author : Marisa Meltzer
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316413992

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This Is Big by Marisa Meltzer Pdf

From a contributor to The Cut, one of Vogue's most anticipated books "bravely and honestly" (Busy Philipps) talks about weight loss and sheds a light on Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch: "a triumphant chronicle" (New York Times). Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

Author : Ian Blumer,Alan L. Rubin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118414170

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Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies by Ian Blumer,Alan L. Rubin Pdf

Get the facts on treating diabetes successfully and living a full and active life As Canada's ultimate diabetes resource, this helpful guide returns with a new edition—thoroughly revised and updated with the latest guidelines from the Canadian Diabetes Association, along with new medical findings. Offering you reassuring guidance for putting together a state-of-the-art diabetes treatment program, this friendly-yet-informative book walks you through all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, ways to juggle diabetes with daily commitments, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy. Packed with helpful advice, Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies, Third Edition explores the newest data about the diagnosis and treatment of people with diabetes, including children and women during pregnancy. The author duo puts their years of diabetes expertise to use by deciphering information from recent studies that provide new insights into how diabetes affects the body and walks you through the latest drugs used to treat this manageable disease. Teaches you how to identify the symptoms that require urgent attention and how to subsequently treat the problem Reassures you of what to do during pregnancy to help ensure a healthy baby Shares advice for finding the right health care providers, from your family physician to your diabetes nurse educator to your dietician, and more Addresses concerns regarding driving with hypoglycemia Discusses the latest connection between the brain and diabetes and looks at new nutritional data from the latest version of Canada's Food Guide Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies, Third Edition features new nutritional data, facts on prediabetes, and advice for prevention tactics, all of which provide you with an arsenal of information that will help you manage your diabetes confidently and wisely.

Author : Navdeep Singh Dhillon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593109984

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Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon Pdf

“Pitch-perfect. One of the most endearing teen voices I’ve ever encountered.” —Becky Albertalli, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda For fans of Sandhya Menon and Adam Silvera comes a prom-night romantic-comedy romp about a Sikh teen's search for love and identity. Sunny G's brother left him one thing when he died: His notebook, which Sunny is determined to fill up with a series of rash decisions. Decision number one was a big one: He stopped wearing his turban, cut off his hair, and shaved his beard. He doesn't look like a Sikh anymore. He doesn't look like himself anymore. Even his cosplay doesn't look right without his beard. Sunny debuts his new look at prom, which he's stuck going to alone. He's skipping the big fandom party—the one where he'd normally be in full cosplay, up on stage playing bass with his band and his best friend, Ngozi—in favor of the Very Important Prom Experience. An experience that's starting to look like a bust. Enter Mindii Vang, a girl with a penchant for making rash decisions of her own, starting with stealing Sunny's notebook. When Sunny chases after her, prom turns into an all-night adventure—a night full of rash, wonderful, romantic, stupid, life-changing decisions. * "[For] fans of John Green and Sandhya Menon, Sunny G is . . . full of heart. It's not one to miss.” —Booklist (starred review) "Reading Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions is the best decision you could make.” —Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of The Serpent King “Poignant and moving.” —Kirkus Reviews