Sinposis

This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today.Conveys the complexity of obesity in everyday terms offering 'instruments of change' in how people think and act in relation to body weight, fatness, and obesity. Highlights popular understandings of body weight, fatness and obesity and relates them to scientific understandings, in a soft myth-busting way.