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859352
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Warin, Megan
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| Title & Author
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Fatness, obesity, and disadvantage in the Australian suburbs : : unpalatable politics /\ Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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3030010090
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: 9783030010096
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3030010082
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9783030010089
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Why is obesity such a political issue? -- How to taste a trifle -- Romantic complexity and the slippery slope to lifestyle drift -- Hide the sugar! -- Fat can "do stuff" -- Shades of shame and pride -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the highly political context of one of Australia's largest childhood obesity interventions. While there is ample evidence about the number of people who are overweight or obese and an abundance of information about what and how to eat, obesity remains 'a problem' in high-income countries such as Australia. Rather than rely on common assumptions that people are making all the wrong choices, this volume reveals the challenges of 'eating healthy' when money is scarce and how, different versions of being fat and doing fat happen in everyday worlds of precarity. Without acknowledgement of the multiple realities of fatness and obesity, interventions will continue to have limited reach.
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Food habits-- Australia.
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Obesity-- Political aspects-- Australia.
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Obesity-- Social aspects-- Australia.
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Poverty-- Health aspects-- Australia.
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Obesity-- prevention control.
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Food habits.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.
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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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Obesity-- Social aspects.
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Obesity.
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Poverty-- Health aspects.
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Australia.
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Australia.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/613
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RA645.O23W37 2019
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WD 210
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| Added Entry
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Zivkovic, Tanya
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