The Obesity Epidemic

Over the last 30 years, fatness has been defined as a risk factor for disease, then a disease in itself, then a global epidemic. What caused this rapid shift? Who’s gonna join our group of B-roll vigilantes? And did we just hear Morgan Freeman?

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• Fat Politics
• Killer Fat
• The End of the Obesity Epidemic
• Folk Devils and Moral Panics
• Moral Panics

Links!

• American Obesity Association PSA
• AMA Recognizes Obesity as a Disease
• Regarding Obesity as a Disease: Evolving Policies and Their Implications
• For Researchers on Obesity: Historical Review of Extra Body Weight Definitions
• Obesity task force linked to WHO takes “millions” from drug firms
• Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer
• Research: How Americans’ Biases Are Changing (or not) Over Time
• Satcher: Obesity Reaching Crisis Levels
• Do Photographic Images of Obese Persons Influence Antifat Attitudes?
• Did the American Medical Association make the correct decision classifying obesity as a disease?
• What exactly is a disease?
• The “Childhood Obesity Epidemic”: Health Crisis or Social Construction?
• Fears of a fat planet overblown, skeptics say
• An Unjust War: The Case Against the Government’s War on Obesity
• Expanding Definitions of Obesity May Harm Children

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