 | Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West by Peter N. Stearns
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £4.55 The most definitive history of fat that I have found..
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 | Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa (Vintage) by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.40 Anorexia nervosa is not just a 20th century 'manufactured' disorder..
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 | Fat
Buy new: £9.26 / Used from: £4.90 The complex, nuanced, culturally varied anthropological context of fat..
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 | Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £0.01 It isn't just what goes into our food materially, but also socially, economically and morally..
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 | The Hungry Gene by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Buy used from: £0.01 A great scientific discourse on the biochemical pathways to obesity..
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 | Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It by Kelly Brownell
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.00 A summary review of the dynamics of the food industry in the US but better still see next one..
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 | Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food & Culture) by M Nestle
Buy used from: £1.96 Although the tone of a polemic may put you off, just cull the facts and build your own research..
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 | Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) by Francine Prose
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £0.29 A modern twist on the cardinal sin.. the OUP series is great - see next too
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 | Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins by Wendy Wasserstein
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £0.01 And then there is sloth.. No judgement from my side but this is often the framing of the obesity debate
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 | Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
Buy used from: £1.43 I am not a fan of this aggressive brand of feminism but all in a day's work for a doctoral researcher..
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 | Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £5.50 A sad commentary on the decline of community in America - sadder in the context of modern day UK
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 | The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness by Kim Chernin
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £1.51 Interesting but sometimes let down by its back-up material..
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 | The Physiology of Taste (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Buy used from: £6.25 Essential reading - esp for a foodie researching obesity..
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 | Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata
Buy used from: £1.04 Yet to read - on my list...
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