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" Globesity : "
Francis Delpeuch [and others].
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BL
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958190
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b712560
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Tous obeses?English.
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Globesity : : a planet out of control? /\ Francis Delpeuch [and others].
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London ;Sterling, VA :: Earthscan,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xviii, 180 pages) :: illustrations
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1849771472
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: 9781849771474
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1844076660
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1844076679
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9781844076666
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9781844076673
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Figures and Boxes; Foreword Human Health and Global Crisis; Preface Tragic Blindness; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Wave of Panic Across the Planet; Chapter 2 'Badnosh' and Other Paradoxes of the AbundantSociety; Chapter 3 Revolution on our Plates; Chapter 4 Agriculture in the Age of 'More is More'; Chapter 5 Welcome to Wal-Mart; Chapter 6 Culprits or Scapegoats?; Chapter 7 Go Active!; Chapter 8 Slimming with Pills; Chapter 9 Prevention is Better than Cure; Chapter 10 Some Leads and their Limits; Chapter 11 Obesity and Climate Change: An Odd Couple?
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Obesity represents one of the major global health challenges of the 21st century. Its occurrence has now reached epidemic proportions, not only in industrialized nations, but increasingly in less developed countries too. Written by world-leading specialists in public health nutrition, Globesity cuts straight to the underlying nature and causes of this devastating trend. It shows that the causes of obesity are primarily socio-economic and the result of a distorted agricultural and food production and supply system. To address this problem, we must learn how to better manage the physical, social a.
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Obesity, Popular works.
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MEDICAL-- Bariatrics.
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Obesity.
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Övervikt.
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Obesity.
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Global Health.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.196/398
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RC628.T6813 2009eb
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2009 G-104
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WD 212T734g 2009a
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Delpeuch, Francis.
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