Over a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades. Dominant biomedical explanations focus on the energy equation - an imbalance between energy intake and exp…
As obesity continues to rise in the US, Canada, Australia and various European countries, this volume offers a perspective that classifies obesity as a social phenomenon as well as a public health problem. The authors argue obesity is a condition of modernisation and present in-…
