XXL (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2011-03-12
Upplaga
New
Utmärkelser
Winner of Outstanding Rated Title awarded by the University Press Books Committee 2012 (United States); Short-listed for The Donner Prize awarded by The Donner Canadian Foundation 2012 (Canada)
Förlag
University of Toronto Press
Illustrationer
1 figure
Dimensioner
228 x 154 x 12 mm
Vikt
268 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780772786272

XXL

Obesity and the Limits of Shame

Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-03-12
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Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and overweight individuals make up more than two-thirds of the adult population. Public health organizations and governments have traditionally tried to combat obesity through shame-inducing policies, which assure people that they can easily lose weight by eating right and exercising. This generic approach has failed, as it does little to address the personal, genetic, and cultural challenges faced by obese individuals. XXL directly confronts the global public health sector by proposing an innovative, alternative policy - the 'healthy living voucher' - for decreasing high calorie consumption and its related health problems. Neil Seeman and Patrick Luciani argue that many public health campaigns have made the problem of obesity worse by minimizing how difficult it is for individuals to lose weight. XXL challenges governments to abandon top-down planning solutions in favour of bottom-up innovations to confront the obesity crisis.
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Neil Seeman is director of the Health Strategy Innovation Cell and a senior resident in health system innovation at Massey College, University of Toronto. Patrick Luciani is a senior resident at Massey College, University of Toronto.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Genesis of Shame Part 1: The Paradoxical Costs of Fat Part 2: (Nearly) Everything Causes Obesity, and (Almost) Everyone is Different Part 3: One-Size-Fits-Nobody Part 4: Healthy Living Vouchers