Obesity In The News

2021-08-31

These studies have highlighted an important difference between the representation of obesity in children and adults, whereby in media discussions of childhood obesity, blame is assigned not to the children affected by obesity (as it is ...

Author: Gavin Brookes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108872836

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press. It combines techniques from corpus linguistics with critical discourse studies to analyse a large corpus of newspaper articles (36 million words) representing ten years of obesity coverage. These articles are studied from a range of methodological perspectives, and analytical themes include variation between newspapers, change over time, diet and exercise, gender and social class. The volume also investigates the language that readers use when responding to obesity representations in the context of online comments. The authors reveal the power of linguistic choices to shame and stigmatise people with obesity, presenting them as irresponsible and morally deviant. Yet the analysis also demonstrates the potential for alternative representations which place greater focus on the role that social and political forces play in this topical health issue.

Obesity Eating Disorders and the Media

2016-05-23

The news media are able to frame how the public thinks about obesity: if media coverage of obesity is predominantly of health and wellbeing, public concern in this domain might follow, and policy might also follow, in turn.

Author: Karin Eli

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317086345

Category: Social Science

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How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And how do the news media select which scientific findings and policy decisions to report? Multi-disciplinary in approach, Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media presents critical new perspectives on media representations of obesity and eating disorders, with analyses of print, online, and televisual media framings. Exploring abjection and alarm as the common themes linking media framings of obesity and eating disorders, Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media shows how the media similarly position these conditions as dangerous extremes of body size and food practice. The volume then investigates how news media selectively cover and represent science and policy concerning obesity and eating disorders, with close attention to the influence of pre-existing framings alongside institutional and moral agendas. A rich, comprehensive analysis of media framings of obesity and eating disorders - as embodied conditions, complex disorders, public health concerns, and culturally significant phenomena - this volume will be of interest to scholars and students across the social sciences and all those interested in understanding cultural aspects of obesity and eating disorders.

Obesity New Insights for the Healthcare Professional 2013 Edition

2013-07-22

(2012 Jun 01) University of Ottawa: Can We Modify the Intrauterine Environment to Halt the Intergenerational Cycle of Obesity? By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- A new study on Obesity is now available.

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Publisher: ScholarlyEditions

ISBN: 9781481667227

Category: Medical

Page: 820

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Obesity: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Diagnosis and Screening. The editors have built Obesity: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Diagnosis and Screening in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Obesity: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Obesity and Diabetes New Insights for the Healthcare Professional 2013 Edition

2013-07-22

Brd2 Gene Disruption Causes “Metabolically Healthy" Obesity: Epigenetic and Chromatin-Based Mechanisms that Unc0uple Obesity from Type 2 Diabetes By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Diabetes Week — Investigators discuss new findings ...

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Publisher: ScholarlyEditions

ISBN: 9781481660969

Category: Medical

Page: 557

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Obesity and Diabetes: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Diagnosis and Screening. The editors have built Obesity and Diabetes: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Diagnosis and Screening in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Obesity and Diabetes: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics

2015-12-22

“Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach.” American Journal of Sociology 95 (1): 1–37. Gard, M. 2011. “Truth, Belief and the Cultural Politics of Obesity Scholarship and Public Health Policy.

Author: Lee Monaghan

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317748168

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 144

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There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity across an increasing range of national contexts. Alarmist claims about an ‘obesity time-bomb’ are continually recycled in policy reports, reviews and white papers, each of which begin with the assumption that fatness is fundamentally unhealthy and damaging to national economies. With contributions from the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia, this book offers alternative critical perspectives on this alleged public health crisis which were, in part, developed through an Economic and Social Research Council seminar series on Fat Studies and Health at Every Size (HAES). Written by scholars from a range of disciplines and the health professions, themes include: an interrogation of statistical procedures used to construct the obesity epidemic, overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for Type 2 diabetes, understandings of healthy eating and healthy weight in a ‘problem’ population, gendered expectations on men and women to lose weight, the visual representation of obesity, tensions when researching (anti-)fatness, critical dietitians’ engagement with HAES, alternative ways of promoting physical activity, and representations of obesity in the media. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.

Handbook of Obesity Volume 1

2014-02-10

42.4 WEIGHT BIAS IN THE MEDIA A particularly pervasive source of weight bias is the mass media. Stigmatizing portrayals of obese individuals are common in television shows, movies, advertisements, news media, and children's cartoons.3 ...

Author: George A. Bray

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781842145579

Category: Medical

Page: 736

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In recent years, we've developed a much better grasp of the biological and other factors associated with the development of obesity. Reflecting our evolving understanding of causes and consequences, Handbook of Obesity: Epidemiology, Etiology, and Physiopathology provides comprehensive coverage of the biological, behavioral, and environmental deter

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity

2011-08-08

Content analyses of children's media show a similar pattern. In children's cartoons, socially desirable traits are ascribed to thin characters, and undesirable traits are associated with overweight characters, who are often portrayed as ...

Author: John Cawley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199876174

Category: Medical

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There is an urgent need to better understand the causes and consequences of obesity, and to learn what works to prevent or reduce obesity. This volume accurately and conveniently summarizes the findings and insights of obesity-related research from the full range of social sciences including anthropology, economics, government, psychology, and sociology. It is an excellent resource for researchers in these areas, both bringing them up to date on the relevant research in their own discipline and allowing them to quickly and easily understand the cutting-edge research being produced in other disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity is a critical reference for obesity researchers and is also valuable for public health officials, policymakers, nutritionists, and medical practitioners. The first section of the book explains how each social science discipline models human behavior (in particular, diet and physical activity), and summarizes the major research literatures on obesity in that discipline. The second section provides important practical information for researchers, including a guide to publicly available social science data on obesity and an overview of the challenges to causal inference in obesity research. The third part of the book synthesizes social science research on specific causes and correlates of obesity, such as food advertising, food prices, and peers. The fourth section summarizes social science research on the consequences of obesity, such as lower wages, job absenteeism, and discrimination. The fifth and final section reviews the social science literature on obesity treatment and prevention, such as food taxes, school-based interventions, and medical treatments such as anti-obesity drugs and bariatric surgery.

Handbook of Obesity Two Volume Set

2019-06-28

Given the high level of media consumption in the United States, weight bias in the mass media must be addressed in ... Stigmatizing portrayals of obese individuals are com- mon in television shows, movies, advertisements, news media, ...

Author: George A. Bray

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781482210705

Category: Medical

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This 2 volume set comprises of the 3rd edition of Volume 1 and the 4th edition of Volume 2, both published in 2014.In recent years, we've developed a much better grasp of the biological and other factors associated with the development of obesity. New clinical trials, discoveries related to drug use, and greater understanding of the benefits of wei