SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cortisone, Cardiovascular Disease, Insulin

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Jacqui Gingras

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Soc 808: because we waste food people are hungry. At the end of this lecture, you will have. Clarified the issues between food studies and feminism. Considered how feminism could help strengthen, deepen, and politicize food studies. Blank food studies, trans-(changed by the interaction with other disciplines)-disciplinary space, critique the medicalization of bodies, problematizes the idea that some bodies are problematic. Look at research confounds the research of bodies outside the norms are unhealthy. Stigmatized = social get under the skin (social problem). Research shows that stigma is a reason for unhealthy. The perception that in somehow skin, where born, age, ability causes poor health. Cortisone (from stress) causes people to be triggered to food, cause temperature to regulate, causes the fat to be in the abdomen. Heart disease and diabetes are the most common. Obesity linked to the disease= stigma to get rid of obesity. Stigmatized by body= body gain more weight to be unhealthy.