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Pages: 273
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Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem; when, then, does body weight become a social problem? Until recently, the major public concern was w
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Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Jeffery Sobal
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Weighty Problems
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Laura Backstrom
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-05 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is int
Solution to the Country's Weighty Problems
Language: en
Pages: 99
Authors: Val Serbalik
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

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Interpreting Weight
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Jeffery Sobal Donna Maurer
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Sociologists, psychologists, and nutritionists explore how people construct fatness and thinness. They examine different strategies used to interpret body weigh