Get Up And Do Something: Public obsession with obesity may be more dangerous than obesity itself, UCLA author says

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Public obsession with obesity may be more dangerous than obesity itself, UCLA author says Dec 23rd 2012, 11:07 Much has been made about who or what is to blame for the "obesity epidemic" and what can or should be done to stem the tide of rising body mass among the U.S. population. A new book by a UCLA sociologist turns these concerns on their head by asking two questions. First, how and why has fatness been medicalized as "obesity" in the first place? Second, what are the social costs of this particular way of discussing body size? In What's Wrong with Fat?, to be published Jan. 3 by Oxford University Press, Abigail Saguy argues that "obesity" is far from a neutral scientific fact. Rather, it is a discrete perspective — what sociologists call a "frame" — that draws attention to certain aspects of a situation while obscuring others.

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