The Obesity Epidemic reviewed

Abstract

Reviews “The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology” by Michael Gard and Jan Wright, finding that it challenges currently established thinking on obesity which finds expression in cliche phrases like “couch potato” and “ticking time‐bomb”. Shows how, according to this book, the common assumptions made about the decline of modern society into obesity are actually importing moralistic judgments into a scientific question, that the energy in – energy out balance does not appear to apply to real life, that there is actual evidence of a positive association between TV viewing and physical activity levels, and that there is no clear relationship between school exercise and physical activity in later life.

Citation

Young, B. (2005), "The Obesity Epidemic reviewed", Young Consumers, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 50-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/17473610510701304