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The Obesity Myth
Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health
Paul Campos, Ph.D.
9 CPEU or CE hours
Course: $68
Includes book & CE exam
CE exam only: $58
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Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health
Paul Campos, Ph.D.
9 CPEU or CE hours
Course: $68
Includes book & CE exam
CE exam only: $58
"Download on demand" available
Description
Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about America's "obesity epidemic."
Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary "ideal weight." Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin. After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteria-and to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale.
But The Obesity Myth is not just a compelling argument, grounded in the latest scientific research; it's also a provocative, wry expose of the culture that feeds on our self-defeating war on fat. Campos will show:
How the nation's most prestigious and trusted media sources consistently misinform the public about obesity
What the movie industry's love affair with the "fat suit" tells us about the relationship between racial- and body-based prejudice in America
How the skinny elite-with their "supersized" lifestyles and gas-guzzling SUVs-project their anxieties about overconsumption on the poorer and heavier underclass
How weight-loss mania fueled the impeachment of Bill Clinton
In this paradigm-busting read, Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political, and cultural meaning of weight and brings a rational and compelling new voice to America's increasingly irrational weight debate.
Level: Basic.
ISBN: 1592400663
ISBN-13: 9781592400669
Format: Hardcover, 304pp
Publisher: Gotham
Pub date: 2004
Content
Foreword by Paul Ernsberg, Ph.D.
Introduction
Part I. Fat Science
1. Fat on Trial
2. The World Turned Upside Down Part II: Fat Culture
3. Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles
4. Lost in the Supermarket
5. The King's Two Bodies
6. The Bimbo Culture
7. Weight Problems
8. All the News That's Print to Fit
9. The Endless Debut
10. Chronic Restrained Living
11. The Athlete Within
12. Why Do Americans Diet?
13. The Last 10 Pounds
14. Life During Wartime
Part III. Fat Politics
15. The Feeding of the President
16. Feminist Accused of Unsightly Weight Gain
17. Anorexia Nervosa and the Spirit of Capitalism
18. The Last American Diet
Conclusion
Notes
Body Mass Index Table
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
Book author
A professor of law at the University of Colorado and a nationally recognized expert on America's war on fat, Paul Campos is the author of a weekly opinion column that appears in moire than forty newspapers nationwide. His articles have appeared in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Reviews
"Professor Campos provides a provocative view on the public-health issue of obesity He deftly pinpoints weaknesses in existing data and the interpretation of this information, and places the focus where it should be-eating a healthful diet and being physically active. If more people followed this advice,. The public's health would be well served." - Steven N. Blair, president & CEO, Cooper Institute
"At last. The truth is out! This is an honest, intelligent, and provocative expose of a culturally biased public-health message. As an obesity researcher and a professor who trains health-care professionals, I am happy to have finally found a weight-related course I can fully recommend in good conscience!" - Linda Bacon, Ph.D., Department of Nutrition, University of California-Davis
"This is one helluva challenge to the cherished 'facts.' Obesity doesn't kill you. It's not the cause of an epidemic. It's not even a disease. Read it and weep for the profits made by the diet and pharmaceutical industries and for the emotional anguish that affects Us many people. And then campaign to stop the madness." - Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue and Hunger Strike
Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
4000 Wellness and public health
4040 Disease prevention
5370 Weight management, obesity
Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about America's "obesity epidemic."
Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary "ideal weight." Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin. After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteria-and to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale.
But The Obesity Myth is not just a compelling argument, grounded in the latest scientific research; it's also a provocative, wry expose of the culture that feeds on our self-defeating war on fat. Campos will show:
How the nation's most prestigious and trusted media sources consistently misinform the public about obesity What the movie industry's love affair with the "fat suit" tells us about the relationship between racial- and body-based prejudice in America How the skinny elite-with their "supersized" lifestyles and gas-guzzling SUVs-project their anxieties about overconsumption on the poorer and heavier underclass How weight-loss mania fueled the impeachment of Bill Clinton In this paradigm-busting read, Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political, and cultural meaning of weight and brings a rational and compelling new voice to America's increasingly irrational weight debate.
Level: Basic.
ISBN: 1592400663
ISBN-13: 9781592400669
Format: Hardcover, 304pp
Publisher: Gotham
Pub date: 2004
Content
Foreword by Paul Ernsberg, Ph.D.
Introduction
Part I. Fat Science
1. Fat on Trial
2. The World Turned Upside Down Part II: Fat Culture
3. Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles
4. Lost in the Supermarket
5. The King's Two Bodies
6. The Bimbo Culture
7. Weight Problems
8. All the News That's Print to Fit
9. The Endless Debut
10. Chronic Restrained Living
11. The Athlete Within
12. Why Do Americans Diet?
13. The Last 10 Pounds
14. Life During Wartime
Part III. Fat Politics
15. The Feeding of the President
16. Feminist Accused of Unsightly Weight Gain
17. Anorexia Nervosa and the Spirit of Capitalism
18. The Last American Diet
Conclusion
Notes
Body Mass Index Table
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
Book author
A professor of law at the University of Colorado and a nationally recognized expert on America's war on fat, Paul Campos is the author of a weekly opinion column that appears in moire than forty newspapers nationwide. His articles have appeared in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Reviews
"Professor Campos provides a provocative view on the public-health issue of obesity He deftly pinpoints weaknesses in existing data and the interpretation of this information, and places the focus where it should be-eating a healthful diet and being physically active. If more people followed this advice,. The public's health would be well served." - Steven N. Blair, president & CEO, Cooper Institute
"At last. The truth is out! This is an honest, intelligent, and provocative expose of a culturally biased public-health message. As an obesity researcher and a professor who trains health-care professionals, I am happy to have finally found a weight-related course I can fully recommend in good conscience!" - Linda Bacon, Ph.D., Department of Nutrition, University of California-Davis
"This is one helluva challenge to the cherished 'facts.' Obesity doesn't kill you. It's not the cause of an epidemic. It's not even a disease. Read it and weep for the profits made by the diet and pharmaceutical industries and for the emotional anguish that affects Us many people. And then campaign to stop the madness." - Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue and Hunger Strike
Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
4000 Wellness and public health
4040 Disease prevention
5370 Weight management, obesity
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