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Throsby, Karen, 1968-
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Sugar -- Political aspects.
Sugar -- Social aspects.
Obesity -- Political aspects.
Obesity -- Social aspects.
Discrimination against overweight persons.
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Throsby, Karen, 1968-
Sugar -- Political aspects.
Sugar -- Social aspects.
Obesity -- Political aspects.
Obesity -- Social aspects.
Discrimination against overweight persons.
MARC Display
Sugar
rush
:
science
,
politics
and the
demonisation
of
fatness
/ Karen Throsby.
by
Throsby, Karen, 1968-
Manchester University Press, 2023.
Call #:
641.336 T531s
Subjects
Sugar
-- Political aspects.
Sugar
-- Social aspects.
Obesity -- Political aspects.
Obesity -- Social aspects.
Discrimination against overweight persons.
Series
Inscriptions (Manchester University Press)
ISBN:
9781526151544 (hc)
9781526151551 (pbk)
Description:
x, 288 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against
sugar
rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done.
Sugar
was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of
sugar
based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play?
Sugar
rush
explores the social life of
sugar
in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the 'problem' of
sugar
are smoothed over through appeals to
science
and the
demonisation
of
fatness
, with
politics
and popular culture preying on our anxieties about what we eat. Drawing on journalism, government policy, public health campaigns, self-help books, autobiographies and documentaries, the book argues that this
rush
to blame
sugar
is a phenomenon of its time, finding fertile ground in the era of austerity and its attendant inequalities. Inviting readers to resist the comforting certainties of the attack on
sugar
,
Sugar
rush
shows how this actually represents a
politics
of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality riddled status quo."--Back cover.
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