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Oliver, J. Eric. Fat politics: The real story behind America's obesity epidemic. Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Jeffrey, Koplan, Kraak Vivica I, Liverman Catharyn T, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board, eds. Preventing childhood obesity: Health in the balance. National Academies Press, 2005.

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Jeffrey, Koplan, Liverman Catharyn T, Kraak Vivica I, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board., and Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention., eds. Preventing childhood obesity: Health in the balance. National Academies Press, 2005.

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Vaughan, R. M. Spells: A novel. Misfit/ECW Press, 2003.

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Afraid to eat: Children and teens in weight crisis. 2nd ed. Healthy Weight Pub. Network, 1997.

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Berg, Francie M. Afraid to eat: Children and teens in weight crisis. Healthy Weight Journal, 1997.

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Obesity, Education and Eating Disorders: Fat Fabrications. Routledge, 2008.

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Obesity, Education and Eating Disorders: Fat Fabrications. Routledge, 2008.

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Evans, John, 1952 Oct. 16-, ed. Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: Fat fabrications. Routledge, 2008.

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Koplan, Jeffrey P., Catharyn T. Liverman, and Vivica I. Kraak. Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health In The Balance. National Academy Press, 2005.

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Jackson, Richard J. Addressing the Built Environment and Health. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662677.003.0039.

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Air, water, and food environments profoundly influence health. Yet, many humans spend most of their time in “built environments”: the structures and places designed and built to surround human existence. These environments range from homes, schools, offices, industrial facilities, roadways, sidewalks, parks, and even vehicles. All of these environments can raise or limit risks to injuries; acute illnesses, such as asthma; and long- term disorders, such as obesity and diabetes. These environments shape economic, social, and psychological well-being—and ultimately planetary sustainability. Designing environments to promote physical activity, including walking, stair climbing, bicycling and other forms of active transportation, is a documented tool for public health improvement.

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Willett, Walter. Thinfluence: Thin-flu-ence (noun) the powerful and surprising effect friends, family, work, and environment have on weight. 2014.

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Women and Dieting Culture: Inside a Commercial Weight Loss Group. Rutgers University Press, 2001.

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Women and Dieting Culture: Inside a Commercial Weight Loss Group. Rutgers University Press, 2001.

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Jarvis, Richard, Angie Bone, and Alex G. Stewart. Sustainability. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198745471.003.0029.

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The concepts of ‘sustainability’ (the set of conditions where we meet current need without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) and ‘sustainable development’ (the plan of actions required to achieve this) are increasingly gaining attention in the field of health protection. This chapter outlines how public health and health protection are intricately interlinked with all three pillars of sustainability (economic development, the environment, social equity) and the existential threats to human survival resulting from unsustainable development. The co-benefits of sustainable development are described (including health benefits: better cardiovascular and mental health, and decreased obesity and diabetes mellitus rates; reduced carbon dioxide emissions and improved household energy use), as well as suggestions as to how health protection can play a part in actions to improve sustainability.

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Komlos, John, and Inas R. Kelly, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199389292.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes. The book addresses both macro and micro factors, as well as their interaction, providing new understanding of complex relationships and developments in economic history and economic dynamics. Among the topics explored is how variation in height, whether over time, among different socioeconomic groups, or in different locations, is an important indicator of changes in economic growth and economic development, levels of economic inequality, and economic opportunities for individuals. The book covers a broad geographic range: Africa, Latin and North America, Asia, and Europe. Its temporal scope ranges from the late Iron Age to the present. Taking advantage of recent improvements in data collection and economic methods, the book also explores how humans’ biological conditions influence and are influenced by their economic circumstances, including poverty. Among the issues addressed are how height, body mass index (BMI), and obesity can affect and are affected by productivity, wages, and wealth. How family environment affects health and well-being is examined, as is the importance of both pre-birth and early-childhood conditions for subsequent economic outcomes. The volume shows that well-being is a salient aspect of economics, and the new toolkit of evidence from biological living standards enhances understanding of how industrialization, commercialization, income distribution, the organization of health care, social status, and the redistributive state affect such human attributes as physical stature, weight, and the obesity epidemic in historical and contemporary populations.

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Lankhuizen, Maureen, Wija Oortwijn, Jonathan Cave, and Flavia Tsang. An analysis of the economic, social and environmental impact of the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity in the European Union: Inception report. RAND Corporation, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.7249/wr449.

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Gray, Allison, and Ronald Hinch, eds. A Handbook of Food Crime. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447336013.001.0001.

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This book contextualises, evaluates, and problematises the (lack of) legal and regulatory organisation involved in the many processes of food production, distribution, and consumption. Turning a criminological gaze on the conditions under which food is (un)regulated, this book encompasses a range of discussions on the problematic conditions under which food (dis)connects with humanity and its consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously. Influenced by critical criminology, social harm approach, green criminology, corporate criminology, and victimology, while engaging with legal, rural, geographic, and political sciences, the concept of food crime fuses diverse research by questioning issues of legality, criminality, deviance, harm, social justice, ethics, and morality within food systems. Evident problems range from food safety and food fraud, to illegal agricultural labour and state-corporate food crimes, to obesity and food deserts, to livestock welfare and genetically modified foods, to the role of agriculture in climate change and food waste, to food democracy and corporate co-optation of food movements. Theorising and researching these problems involves questioning the processes of lacking or insufficient regulation, absent or ineffective enforcement, resulting harms, and broader issues of governance, corruption, and justice. Due to the contemporary corporatisation of food and the subsequent distancing of humans from foodstuffs and food systems, not only is it important to think criminologically about food, but the criminological study of food may help make criminology relevant today.

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Patico, Jennifer. The Trouble with Snack Time. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479835331.001.0001.

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In the wake of school lunch reform debates, heated classroom cupcake wars, and worries about childhood obesity, children’s food is a locus of anxiety and “crisis” in the United States. What does the feeding of children—and adults’ often impassioned, worried talk about the foods children eat—say about middle-class parents’ understandings of what it means to parent well, and about the kinds of individuals they feel compelled to create in their children? How are these understandings reflective of a larger political economic moment, and how do they reinforce existing forms of social inequality? This book takes up those questions through in-depth ethnographic research in “Hometown,” an urban Atlanta charter school community. Embedding herself in school events, after-school meetings, school lunchrooms, and private homes, the author observed how children’s food was a locus for fundamental moral tensions about how to live, how to present oneself, and how to be protected from harm in a neoliberal environment. Middle-class parents took responsibility for protecting their children from an industrialized food system and for cultivating children’s self-management in food and other realms; yet they did so in ways that ultimately and unintentionally tended to reinforce class privilege and the effects of social inequality. Listening closely to adults’—and children’s—food concerns and contextualizing them both very locally and vis-à-vis a broader political economy, this book interrogates those unintended effects and asks how the “crisis” of children’s food might be reimagined toward different ends.

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Cappuccio, Francesco P., and Michelle A. Miller. Sleep and cardio-metabolic disease. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778240.003.0008.

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Sleep patterns of quantity and quality are affected by a variety of cultural, social, psychological, behavioural, pathophysiological, and environmental influences. Changes in modern society—such as longer working hours, more shift work, 24/7 availability of commodities, and 24-hour global connectivity—have been associated with a gradual reduction in sleep duration and sleeping patterns across westernized populations. In the present chapter we review the evidence to suggest that prolonged curtailment of sleep duration and worsening of sleep quality are both powerful risk factors for the development of common diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke, and may even be responsible, in the long term, for premature death.

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Brown, Alison G. M., and Sara C. Folta. Health Disparities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626686.003.0004.

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Diet- and nutrition-related health disparities and inequities are a growing issue globally and nationally. This chapter explores how race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status influence diet-related health outcomes, such as malnutrition, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and the complexity of the underlying causes of these health disparities and inequities. First, the chapter provides a foundational understanding of the terms and concepts as well as the historical nature of these disparities. The array of factors that contribute to health disparities including the social determinants of health such as educational level, employment status, environmental factors, access and affordability of healthy food, neighborhood segregation, chronic stress, discrimination and access to health care are then described. Given the growing number of immigrants in the United States and their important role in society, the healthy immigrant hypothesis and the dietary acculturation process among various immigrant groups in the United States is also discussed. The authors conclude by elaborating on global diet-related health disparities and the global and societal factors that perpetuate these differences in outcomes.

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Martin, Jeffrey J. The Disability World. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.003.0006.

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While people with disabilities have much in common with able-bodied people, on a population level, researchers have demonstrated a number of important differences between people considered able-bodied and those labeled as disabled. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of those differences. First, individuals with acquired disabilities face significant challenges when adjusting to a life with an impairment. While having a disability is not synonymous with poor health, people with disabilities often experience secondary conditions such as diabetes, chronic pain, and obesity. People with disabilities tend to experience more loneliness and depression and have less social support compared to able-bodied people. Lower levels of education and socioeconomic status also create challenges to enjoying a strong quality of life. Significant social and environmental barriers make performing activities of daily living and engaging in sport and exercise more difficult than for able-bodied individuals. People with disabilities often face far more daily challenges to their well-being compared to able-bodied individuals.

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Barnhill, Anne, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett, eds. [Oxford] Handbook of Food Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199372263.001.0001.

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Food ethics, as an academic pursuit, is vast, incorporating work from philosophy as well as anthropology, economics, environmental sciences and other natural sciences, geography, law, and sociology. This Handbook provides a sample of recent philosophical work in food ethics. This philosophical work addresses ethical issues with agricultural production, the structure of the global food system, the ethics of personal food consumption, the ethics of food policy, and cultural understandings of food and eating, among other issues. The work in this Handbook draws on multiple literatures within philosophy, including practical ethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy, as well as drawing on non-philosophical work. Part I considers ethical issues concerning the industrial model of farming that dominates in developed countries, looking most closely at industrial crop farming and its environmental effects. Part II concerns the ethics of animal agriculture. Part III concerns the ethics of consumption: is it morally permissible to consume various products? Part IV concerns justice—including racial, social, and economic justice—in the food system. Part V discusses some ethical and legal issues with specific kinds of food policies, including healthy eating policies, food labeling, and agricultural guest worker programs. Part VI includes four essays taking a critical eye to our public discourse about, and personal experiences of, dieting, healthy eating, and obesity prevention. Lastly, the essays in Part VII concern the personal, social, and moral significance of food.

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Martin, Jeffrey J. Physical Activity, Weight, and Fitness. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.003.0028.

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Physical activity, body weight, and fitness are often, but not always, related. This chapter discusses research that has examined all three areas. People with disabilities face many individual, social, and environmental barriers to being physically active. As a result, people with disabilities can have physical activity levels that are, like able-bodied people, quite dismal. Research examining the lack of physical activity among people with impairments is quite robust as it spans ethnicity, disability type, physical activity type, and assessment method. Partly as a function of a lack of physical activity, people with disabilities tend to have higher levels of overweight and obesity compared to able-bodied people. Additionally, a lack of physical activity contributes to a lack of muscular strength and endurance and inferior cardiovascular fitness. As a result, a pattern of increasing weight gain and decreasing fitness make activities of daily living more difficult. In turn, further formal and informal physical activity become more difficult and a vicious downward spiral develops that is difficult to break, particularly for older and unhealthy individuals with disabilities.

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