{"product_id":"fat-politics-the-real-story-behind-americas-obesity-epidemic-9780195169362","title":"Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis  that sixty percent of Americans are \"overweight \" and that one in four is obese. But how true are these claims? In Fat Politics  Eric Oliver unearths the real story behind Americas \"obesity epidemic.\" Oliver shows how a handful of doctors  government bureaucrats  and health researchers  with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industry  have campaigned to misclassify more than sixty million Americans as \"overweight \" to inflate the health risks of being fat  and to promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence  Oliver shows there is little proof either that obesity causes so many diseases and deaths or that losing weight makes people any healthier. Our concern with obesity is fueled more by social prejudice  bureaucratic politics  and industry profit than by scientific fact. Such misinformation  Oliver argues  is the true problem with obesity in America. By telling us we need to be thin  the proponents of the \"obesity epidemic\" are pushing millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries  crash diets  and harmful diet drugs. Oliver goes on to examine the surprising reasons why we hate fatness and why we are gaining weight  and also the real threats to our health that are being displaced by our fat obsession. Fat Politics not only topples our most basic assumptions about obesity and health  it highlights frightening dangers caused by making our weight a scapegoat for our real problems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45655806935093,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195169360","price":99.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195169362.jpg?v=1781940968","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/fat-politics-the-real-story-behind-americas-obesity-epidemic-9780195169362","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}