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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"obesity discourse"”.
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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A HEALTHY BODIES CURRICULUM MODULE FOR COLLEGE PERSONAL HEALTH
Health curriculum traditionally (re)produces obesity discourse, a fusion of biomedical and moral perspectives of weight and fat. This weight-centered approach to bodies may perpetuate weight stigmatization, indirectly supports a culture of thinness, and contradicts other health messages concerning …
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A Complex Disease with Complex Discourse: Exploring the Online Messaging of Two Canadian Obesity Charities and the Implications for Weight Stigma
… the online messages produced by two prominent obesity organizations in Canada (Harwood 2009; Rail 2012). Specifically, this study asks, how do obesity organizations frame and define obesity? How does the organizational context contribute to the framing of obesity-related messages? How do these …
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Problematising Big Food’s appetite for policymaking the case of childhood obesity
… helping to develop workable solutions to address obesity – by partnering with government, academia, health societies and other responsible members of civil society’ (Coca-Cola, 2011: 1). Big Food’s reinvention as public health promoter means that government public health policy is increasingly …