Weight of Modernity An Intergenerational Study of the Rise of Obesity /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Banwell, Cathy (Συγγραφέας), Broom, Dorothy (Συγγραφέας), Davies, Anna (Συγγραφέας), Dixon, Jane (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Public health.; Population.; Sociology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Sociology, general.; Population Economics.

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 expenditure - and remedi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. The big Australian: obesity in the modern world
• Chapter 2. An intergenerational study design
• Chapter 3. From habit to choice: Transformations in family dining
• Chapter 4. How convenience is shaping Australian diets: The disappearing dessert
• Chapter 5.From social leisure to exhaustion: a tale of two revolutions
• Chapter 6. Fitness marginalises fun and friendship
• Chapter 7. The rise of automobility
• Chapter 8. The weight of time: from full to fragmented in 50 years
• Chapter 9. Social forces shaping life chances and life choices
• Chapter 10. Restoring coherence to a stressed social system.