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Regulating Obesity?: Government, Society, and Questions of Health

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This book explores the effectiveness of legal interventions aimed at promoting healthier lifestyles. In this book, W.A. Bogart suggests that the government's emphasis on encouraging weight loss and preventing excess weight gain have largely failed to resolve obesity and have instead fueled prejudice against overweight people. He suggests that a major challenge lies in shifting norms away from stigmatization of the obese and towards more nutritious and healthy lifestyle habits in addition to the acceptance of bodies in all ...

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Regulating Obesity?: Government, Society, and Questions of Health 2013, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199856206

Hardcover