Social aspects of obesity/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Greek |
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Luxembourg:
Gordon and Breach Publishers,
c1995
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| Series: | Culture and ecology of food and nutrition
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the series
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Cultural fattening processes: 1. Food and fatness in Calabria 2. Physique of Sumo wrestlers in relation to some cultural characteristics of Japan 3. Sociocultural aspects of the male fattening session among the Massa of Northern Cameroon 4. Fertility and fat: the Annang fattening room 5. Social fattening patterns in the pacific: the positive side of obesity - a Nauru case study 6. Taste, food regimens and fatness: a study in social stratification 7. Vegetarianism and fatness: an undervalues perception of the body
- II. Physical and social aspects: 8. Potential advantages and disadvantages of human obesity 9. Obesity and physical fitness: an age-dependent functional and social handicap 10. Obesity and overweight in polish men and women: social determinants 11. Educational attainment, stress hormones, body fat and health: a Sociocultural neuroendocrine pathway?
- III. Social phenomena associated with obesity: 12. Changing food consumption and body images among Malays 13. Polynesian responses to modernization: overweight and obesity in the South Pacific 14. Activity level and obesity among Samoans 15. Obesity and fatness as seen by the Azande in Central Africa 16. Evaluation of fatness in traditional Japanese Society
- Epilogue
- Index