Planet obesity : how we're eating ourselves and the planet to death / Garry Egger, Boyd Swinburn.

  • Egger, Garry
Date:
[2010]
  • Books

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Description

Explores how affluence and the development of new technologies has come at a huge, and potentially devastating, cost - an epidemic of obesity and a world clogged by waste.

Publication/Creation

[Australia?] : Read How You Want, [2010]

Physical description

144 pages ; 26 cm

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Edition

ReadHowYouWant edition.

Notes

Original edition published: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010. ISBN 9781742373621.
EasyRead Large 16. Set in 16 pt. Verdana.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Hitting the sweet spot -- Obesity : its part in our downfall -- Good fat versus bad fat -- The role of inflammation -- Health, 'illth', economic growth and the sweet spot -- Linking obesity, chronic disease and the environment -- The perfect storm and the sour spot -- Health promotion for economists -- Making corrections -- Just help yourself.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WD210 2010E29p
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1459613155
  • 9781459613157