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

Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true 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 prescription for working collectively, not only to understand this critical health issue, but also to establish a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable.

Info autore

Eric J. Bailey, PhD, is professor of anthropology and public health at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eric Bailey, Bailey Eric J.
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9780865693302
• ISBN: 978-0-86569-330-2
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; USA, COOKING / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Family & health, Cookery / food & drink etc, United States of America, USA, Family and health, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, Health and Wellness: Nutrition and Healthy Living