Food Choice and Obesity in Black America - Creating a New Cultural Diet (Hardcover)

Providing a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences, anthropologist Eric Bailey shows us how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. Like the majority of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences - heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages. Bailey offers a new cultural diet for black Americans and a way to work together collectively to not only understand this critical health issue, but also to establish a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable. This work will interest not only general readers, but also students and scholars in health and medicine, psychology and health psychology, nursing and social work. Views on celebrity black Americans who have fought battles against their weight, a review of soul food cookbooks and the cultural history of black American cuisine, and a critique of the lack of corporate America's marketing of health and fitness programs and items to the black American community are spotlighted. book also includes an overview of federally funded diet and fitness programs for black Americans that have seen some success.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2006
First published:	May 2006
Authors:	Eric J. Bailey
Dimensions:	236 x 163 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-86569-330-2
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Food & Drink > General
LSN:	0-86569-330-7
Barcode:	9780865693302

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