Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating Disorder (Societas)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845402162 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"While one might sympathise with the idea that fears about food have been blown out of all proportion and are being used to attempt to control peoples eating habits, the overall argument of this book is somewhat perverse This may be provocative, but it is also perverse." (Scientific and Medical Network)"Panic on a plate looks at how many feel robbed of the enjoyment that food gives us when in fact we should be embracing food when there are so many in other countries still starving and undernourished." (Ibadete Fetahu Nursing Times)"Now, think about your workmates and friends. Would you really regard a quarter of them as obese? I'll bet few of them match up to the typical picture that accompanies every story about obesity: a morbidly obese person, whose clothes are straining to hold in their tummies. Such very overweight people only make up about two per cent of the population." (Yorkshire
Our modern food system allows us to be healthier than ever before, while transforming food from fuel into a source of entertainment, pleasure and choice.Rob Lyons is Deputy Editor of Spiked Online.. This book challenges these ideas and places the food debate in a wider context. The availability, range, cost and quality of food in Western societies have never been more favourable, yet food is also the focus of a great deal of anxiety. As the political imagination and the scope of social policy have narrowed, the focus on the personal and corporeal has filled this gap, creating an inward, individualised perspective that breeds a personal sense of vulnerability and distracts from issues of broader social importance.The book also examines the current use of ‘food as metaphor’ – the way that ‘bad food’ and obesity, for example, have become code words for an elite disdain for the masses, implicitly promoting the idea that the consequences of poverty are the fault of the poor, and that a solution to the problems of social inequality lies in the consumption of five fruit and veg a day.The author also discusses how health fears around food are used as a lever for greater official control of our everyday lives, from lunchbox inspections and school food crusades, to endless media health advice and scientifically-dubious ‘healthy labelling’ initiatives. The upshot of these connected trends is misplaced anxiety and wasted ef
Highly recommended! Read the customer reviews on the amazon.uk site for more insightful reviews of this book than PeterD offers: readers give it Highly recommended! Dragonfly Read the customer reviews on the amazon.uk site for more insightful reviews of this book than PeterD offers: readers give it 4-1/2 stars.amazon.co.uk/Panic-Plate-Developed-Disorder-Societas/dp/1845402162This book provides a welcome push back against the food police and alarmists who are so determined to use government to interfere with our right to make choices as individuals about what we eat. As one UK Amazon reviewer put it: "As with so many "public panics", the hysteria over diet is shown to be a mix of vastly exaggerated risks and over-politicising of Health and safety issues which inevitably leads to distortions of the sci. -1/2 stars.amazon.co.uk/Panic-Plate-Developed-Disorder-Societas/dp/18Highly recommended! Dragonfly Read the customer reviews on the amazon.uk site for more insightful reviews of this book than PeterD offers: readers give it 4-1/2 stars.amazon.co.uk/Panic-Plate-Developed-Disorder-Societas/dp/1845402162This book provides a welcome push back against the food police and alarmists who are so determined to use government to interfere with our right to make choices as individuals about what we eat. As one UK Amazon reviewer put it: "As with so many "public panics", the hysteria over diet is shown to be a mix of vastly exaggerated risks and over-politicising of Health and safety issues which inevitably leads to distortions of the sci. 5Highly recommended! Dragonfly Read the customer reviews on the amazon.uk site for more insightful reviews of this book than PeterD offers: readers give it 4-1/2 stars.amazon.co.uk/Panic-Plate-Developed-Disorder-Societas/dp/1845402162This book provides a welcome push back against the food police and alarmists who are so determined to use government to interfere with our right to make choices as individuals about what we eat. As one UK Amazon reviewer put it: "As with so many "public panics", the hysteria over diet is shown to be a mix of vastly exaggerated risks and over-politicising of Health and safety issues which inevitably leads to distortions of the sci. 02162This book provides a welcome push back against the food police and alarmists who are so determined to use government to interfere with our right to make choices as individuals about what we eat. As one UK Amazon reviewer put it: "As with so many "public panics", the hysteria over diet is shown to be a mix of vastly exaggerated risks and over-politicising of Health and safety issues which inevitably leads to distortions of the sci. "Recommended!" according to transponder. I loved this book. A pacy, lucid, well-written book packed with insights and information, much of which was an education for me -- and I've done quite a bit of reading on the subject of food lately. It deserves attention, but it's such a bracing dose of common sense that there are obvious reasons why many would not like to give it the attention it deserves. My only quibble, really, is that the author says that people now can be 'a little fatter' than the government (pick any Anglosphere Western government) thinks is ideal, and that obese people aren't really more than a little fat to their family and friends -- but I have to ask. "Complete Nonsense" according to PeterD. Rob Lyons knows absolutely nothing about nutrition or health. He actually seems to believe that if you get the RDA for each nutrient, you will be healthy! Any one who knows anything about health knows that the RDAs are vastly inadequate, in some cases suggesting only .001% of what you should have to be healthy. There are good books about health out there. Don't waste your time on this piece of trash.