The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral panic?

By P. Campos, A. Saguy, P. Ernsberger, Eric Oliver, G. Gaesser. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006

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Gender, Obesity, and Education (2007, background): “For the most part, this trend has sparked widespread concern because of fears that it forecasts a major public health crisis (Anderson and Butcher 2006; Campos et al. 2006; Freedman et al. 1999; National Institutes of Health 2003).”
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (2011, background): “fat storage due to compensatory insulin secretion [61,74-78].”
Coming Out as Fat (2011, background): “Fatphobia is of high power because negative attitudes about fat are buttressed by substantial economic and political material resources from the United States and other state governments and agencies, international organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO), pharmaceutical companies prod”
Sociology of diagnosis: a preliminary review. (2009, background): “Many patients and advocacy groups refute that obesity is a disease and maintain that the medicalisation of obesity is evidence of size discrimination rather than of biophysical dysfunction (Gard and Wright 2005, Campos et al. 2006a, 2006b).”