Garry Egger Boyd Swinburn: 2 books
Planet Obesity
How we're eating ourselves and the planet to death
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Obesity is 'collateral damage in the battle for modernity'. It's an unintended but unavoidable consequence of economic progress.
Obesity is not a disease but a signal. It's the canary in the coalmine, which should alert us to bigger structural problems in society.
There are a number...
by Garry Egger & Boyd Swinburn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Explores how affluence and the development of new technologies has come at a huge, and potentially devastating, cost - an epidemic of obesity and a world clogged by waste. Obesity is 'collateral damage in the battle for modernity'. It's an unintended but unavoidable consequence of economic...