Fat: fighting the obesity epidemic
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1. Verfasser: Pool, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press c2001
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-282) and index
Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Most Peculiar Plague; 1 Medicalizing Obesity; 2 The Answer That Wasn't; 3 There's No Place Like Homeostasis; 4 The Legacy of the Great Fire; 5 That Eureka Moment; 6 The Parable of the Pimas; 7 Setting the Set Point; 8 One Pill Makes You Larger, and One Pill Makes You Small; 9 Just Who's in Charge Here?; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
The author of Eve's Rib takes a close up look at scientific efforts to understand and control human obesity, examining the pharmaceutical and weight control programs available, the history of obesity research, and the science of body weight, and arguing that the real problem with obesity is not losing the weight, but keeping it off
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 292 p.)
ISBN:0198027931
1602562598
9780198027935
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