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来源类型 | Commercial Books |
规范类型 | 图书 |
ISBN | 9781568589671 |
来源ID | CB-536 |
A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic — And How We Can End It | |
Deborah A. Cohen | |
发表日期 | 2014 |
出版年 | 2014 |
页码 | 272 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding the modern weight crisis. Based on her own extensive research, as well as the latest insights from behavioral economics and cognitive science, Cohen reveals what drives the obesity epidemic and how we, as a nation, can overcome it. Cohen argues that the massive increase in obesity is the product of two forces. One is the fundamental limits of self-control and the unconscious ways we are hard-wired to eat. And second is the completely transformed modern food environment, including lower prices, larger portion sizes, and the outsized influence of food advertising. The conventional wisdom is that overeating is the expression of individual weakness and a lack of self-control. But that would mean that people in this country had more willpower thirty years ago, when the rate of obesity was half of what it is today. Our capacity for self-control has not shrunk; instead, the changing conditions of our modern world have pushed our limits to such an extent that more and more of us are simply no longer up to the challenge. Ending this public health crisis will require solutions that transcend the advice found in diet books. A Big Fat Crisis offers concrete recommendations and sweeping policy changes — including implementing smart and effective regulations and constructing a more balanced food environment — that represent a blueprint for defeating the obesity epidemic once and for all. |
主题 | Childhood Obesity ; Diet and Eating Habits |
URL | https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB536.html |
来源智库 | RAND Corporation (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/110775 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Deborah A. Cohen. A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic — And How We Can End It. 2014. |
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