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BL
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Record Number
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847169
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Main Entry
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Solomon, Harris,1979-
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Title & Author
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Metabolic living : : food, fat and the absorption of illness in India /\ Harris Solomon.
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Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2016.
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, ©2016
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Series Statement
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Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) :: illustrations
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ISBN
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0822374447
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: 9780822374442
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082236087X
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0822361019
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9780822360872
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9780822361015
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
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Contents
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Interlude birthday cakes -- The thin-fat Indian -- Mango madness -- The taste no chef can give -- The ration card -- Readying the home -- Stamps -- Lines of therapy -- Waiting room walls -- Gut attachments -- Metabolic Mumbai.
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Abstract
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In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs.
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Convenience foods-- India.
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Food habits-- India.
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Lipids in human nutrition-- India.
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Malnutrition-- India.
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Metabolism.
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Obesity-- India.
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Feeding Behavior.
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Malnutrition.
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Obesity.
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Convenience foods.
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Food habits.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.
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Lipids in human nutrition.
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Malnutrition.
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MEDICAL-- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Diseases.
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MEDICAL-- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Internal Medicine.
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Metabolism.
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Obesity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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India.
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India.
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Dewey Classification
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616.39800954
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LC Classification
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RC628.S656 2016
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