Reducing Bodies
Title | Reducing Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth M. Matelski |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017-05-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113481027X |
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies—through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery—and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America. Drawing on novel and untapped sources, including insurance industry records, this engaging study considers questions of gender, health, and race and provides historical context for the emergence of fat studies and contemporary conversations of the "obesity epidemic."
Reducing Bodies
Title | Reducing Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Matelski |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Body image in women |
ISBN | 9781138681668 |
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies--through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery--and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America. Drawing on novel and untapped sources, including insurance industry records, this engaging study considers questions of gender, health, and race and provides historical context for the emergence of fat studies and contemporary conversations of the "obesity epidemic."
Reducing Bodies
Title | Reducing Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth M. Matelski |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017-05-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134810202 |
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies—through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery—and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America. Drawing on novel and untapped sources, including insurance industry records, this engaging study considers questions of gender, health, and race and provides historical context for the emergence of fat studies and contemporary conversations of the "obesity epidemic."
The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity
Title | The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Office of the Surgeon General |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN |
Promotes the recognition, treatment, and prevention of conditions of overweight and obesity in the United States.
Weight Management
Title | Weight Management PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2003-12-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309089964 |
The primary purpose of fitness and body composition standards in the U.S. Armed Forces has always been to select individuals best suited to the physical demands of military service, based on the assumption that proper body weight and composition supports good health, physical fitness, and appropriate military appearance. The current epidemic of overweight and obesity in the United States affects the military services. The pool of available recruits is reduced because of failure to meet body composition standards for entry into the services and a high percentage of individuals exceeding military weight-for-height standards at the time of entry into the service leave the military before completing their term of enlistment. To aid in developing strategies for prevention and remediation of overweight in military personnel, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command requested the Committee on Military Nutrition Research to review the scientific evidence for: factors that influence body weight, optimal components of a weight loss and weight maintenance program, and the role of gender, age, and ethnicity in weight management.
Diet and Health
Title | Diet and Health PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 765 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309039940 |
Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. It proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, liver disease, and dental caries.
Bakers Review
Title | Bakers Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 752 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Bakers |
ISBN |