Weighing in takes on the obesity epidemic, challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Experiment 3 introduction to weighing technique and. I have nothing against good food i eat it myself, says guthman, a selfconfessed foodie whose father could be called a healthfood. Julie guthman, a wellknown food scholar, has just released a new book that turns all of our assumptions about obesity on their heads. Weighing in by julie guthman paperback university of california press earlier in the text, she gives an overview of the ways farmland was originally distributed, and how that generationsago distribution gave power and wealth to some, while excluding nonwhites. Her argument is that our current accepted knowledge about obesity is incomplete, and that better health starts with asking better questions. Place the empty container on the pan and close the draft shield. Julie guthman university of california santa cruz, program in community studies, division of social sciences pathogens, plant breeding, chemicals, land, and workers in the making and unmaking of californias strawberry industry. Julie guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent obesity are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. Julie guthman is a geographer and professor of social sciences at the university of california at santa cruz where she teaches courses primarily in global political economy and the politics of food and agriculture. Weighing intakes on the obesity epidemic, challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Wilted by julie guthman overdrive rakuten overdrive. Obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism, she addresses the issue of obesity with new eyes.
Obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism university of california press, 2011. Weighing plays a fundamental role in research, development, quality assurance, and production. Guthman provides an accessible overview of what political ecology is, and how it contrasts with apolitical ecologies, before applying it to the problem of obesity. To learn the weighing technique weighing by taring. Obesity, food justice and the limits of capitalism. Wilted brilliantly exposes the deadly intersection of grower capitalism, agricultural expertise in the business of system restoration, and what guthman calls the nonhuman entities and forces that both collaborate and interrupt the operations of the industry. Experiment 3 introduction to weighing technique and density. Wait a few seconds for the display to register a constant mass. Berkeley, university of california press, 2011, 248 pp.
Request pdf on jun 1, 20, john coveney and others published weighing in. University of california press, berkeley, 2011, 227. Weighing in is an excellent demonstration of how political ecology can be deployed to deepen our understanding of an incredibly complicated issue. University of california press, berkeley, 2011, 227 pages, isbn 978. A bold, compelling challenge to conventional thinking about obesity and its fixes, weighing in is one of the most important books on food politics to hit the shelves in a long time. Weighing definition, to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon a person or thing by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device. In weighing in, guthman, who readily admits to being a privileged and a not very thin foodie, candidly reflects on the beliefs and behaviors of the current food movement, which often frames obesity within a lack of education and access to alternative food networks.
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