AMS 55 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Social Forces, Food Industry, Leptin
23 Jan 2018
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Belas(cid:272)o"s tria(cid:374)gle: responsibility, fair trade, organic, labor, access and insecurity, feeding the future, obesity. Problem frames (saguy, what"s wrong with fat?: fatness is the problem. Immorality: medical, public health crisis, medical model, medical, public health crisis, health at every size, beauty, fat rights. Medical model of obesity: the dominant view that defines overweight and obesity as medical issues and high rates of overweight and obesity in a population as a health crisis: blame frames, personal responsibility, sociocultural, biology. Personal responsibility: cause: eating too much and not moving enough, cure, changing behavior, diet and exercise, willpower; personal responsibility. Biology: causes: biological processes, genes (like height, hormones (leptin, prenatal environment (famine, viruses, cures: drugs, surgery. Dominance of personal responsibility frame (saguy: even if other factors are discussed, personal responsibility factors dominate the discussion, 262 news article, 1995-2005, 41% discuss individual level causes, 29% discuss sociocultural, 16% discuss biology.
