Browsing by Subject "Obesity"

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    • The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala 

      Yates-Doerr, Emily (University of California Press, 2015)
      A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions ...

    • Why calories count: from science to politics 

      Nesheim, Malden C.; Nestle, Marion (University of California Press, 2012)
      Calories too few or too many are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or ...