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Neoliberalism and the "Obesity Epidemic"

Rubinstein, DianneThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2001

… action if necessary." I would argue that the "Obesity Epidemic" is just such a created Neoliberal market, and in fact does not actually exist as an "epidemic." By changing the computation of BMI (Body Mass Index) in 1998, the federal government created the "Obesity Epidemic" by definitional …

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