Fat
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Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
By Sander L. GilmanSince Lenny is without a body, it is the figure of Mrs Levy, the wife of the owner of Levy Pants, whose body reveals it all. It is she who had evoked Lenny as the model for her husband's dealing with his business difficulties.
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Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes
By Jennifer McLaganQuincemeat Makes about 4 cups / 1 1 6 ounces/ 175 g seedless Thompson raisins 4 ounces / 1 1 5 g golden raisins (sultanas) 2 ounces/ 60 g mixed candied citrus peel 2/3 cup/ 4 ounces / 115 g firmly packed brown sugar 1 cup / 3V2 ounces ...
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Fat: It's Not What You Think
By Connie LeasApparently the CLA ratchets down the body's production of an enzyme, called COX-2—that normally triggers inflammation. In addition to cancer, COX-2 has been indicted as a possible player in many chronic diseases, including autoimmune ...
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Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
By Christopher E. Forth25–33, 116–21; S. G. Miller, Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (Berkeley, ca, 2004), pp. 18, 218. Onians, Origins, p. 210. ... 221; G.Tétart, Le Sang des fleurs: Une anthropologie de l'abeille et du miel ...
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Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
By Sander L. GilmanThis fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
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Fat
By Deborah LuptonThis analysis identifies broader preoccupations and trends in the ways that human bodies and selfhood are experienced and practised. The second and much expanded edition of Fat is twice as long as the original edition.
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Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient with Recipes
By Jennifer McLaganChef, Jennifer McLagan, sets out to win us back to a healthy relationship with fat in this comprehensive guide to storing, preparing and cooking with fat.
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Fat
By Deborah LuptonThe volume is a lively, at times provocative introduction for the general reader, as well as for students and academics interested in the politics of embodiment and health.
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Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
By Christopher E. ForthWhile "fat" describes the size and shape of bodies—their appearance—our negative reactions to corpulence also depend on something tangible and tactile. As this book argues, there is more to fat than meets the eye.
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Fat
By Rob GrantThis is a hilariously moving, movingly hilarious novel and marks a massive step-change in Rob Grant's growth as a writer. Here is a hugely commerical new voice in mainstream, high concept, high in poly-saturates, commercial fiction.
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Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
By Don Kulick, Anne MeneleyWith more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-versally damned-as one might think.
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Fat: Fighting the Obesity Epidemic
By Robert PoolThe author of Eve's Rib takes a close up look at scientific efforts to understand and control human obesity, examining the pharmaceutical and weight control programs available, the history of obesity research, and the science of body weight ...