Epidemics of Abundance: Overeating and Slimming in the USA and Britain since the 1950s.
Body weight has risen in defiance of health and appearance norms. The social epidemics of overeating and slimming were driven by market forces and the psychology of eating: restrained eating is easily disinhibited by stress. For men, the rise in body weight was associated with the decline of family...
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Nuffield College (University of Oxford)
1998
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