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

• Main Authors: Banwell, Cathy (Author), Broom, Dorothy (Author), Davies, Anna (Author), Dixon, Jane (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.