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Ever Seen a Fat Fox?
Human Obesity Explored
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This book is ideal for readers interested in nutritional science, public health policy, and the cultural aspects of obesity. It appeals especially to those looking for an evidence-based, balanced perspective beyond sensationalism, including students, healthcare professionals, and informed general readers.
In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored Professor Mike Gibney traces the evolution of our modern diet and looks to science to offer solutions to the phenomenon of human obesity. He calls on governments to cease the single-issue ad-hoc approach and demands a massive governmental long-term investment in weight management.
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Ever Seen a Fat Fox? Didn't think so. Why is it that only humans—or animals in the care of humans—develop obesity?
In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored, Professor Mike Gibney delves into the history of the human relationship with food. He traces the evolution of our modern diet and looks to science to offer solutions to the phenomenon of human obesity. He calls on governments to cease the single-issue, ad-hoc approach and demands a significant governmental long-term investment in weight management.
It is a commonly held belief that obesity is a recent phenomenon. Professor Gibney reveals that obesity is nothing new; in fact, the modern upward trend in obesity began in the mid-nineteenth century. Obesity has been part of the human experience whenever and wherever we've had affluence.
There are many who seek to apportion blame for the epidemic of obesity. Blaming the food industry for obesity is always popular: sugar is public enemy number one. Debunking exaggerated views and cutting through the mixed messaging, Gibney demonstrates that most food processing techniques are old, hundreds and thousands of years old.
The genetics of obesity, the practice of dieting, and the value of physical activity are thoroughly assessed. The failures of the players in obesity—including the media, scientists, academic organisations, international agencies, specifically the WHO, and the food industry—are brought into sharp focus.
What can we learn from the fox? An expert in public health and personalised nutrition with bestselling books and over 300 peer-reviewed papers in the area, Professor Mike Gibney uncovers the full story behind obesity based on painstaking research, and offers us tangible solutions to this very human phenomenon.
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The Irish Times praises Gibney as a top nutritional scientist who insightfully explores the biological, behavioural, and cultural factors driving obesity and proposes practical strategies. The Nutrition Wonk considers the book a measured assessment that challenges common scapegoats like food processing, instead highlighting the role of availability. The Sunday Times regards the book as a thoughtful, expert critique for those tired of oversimplified nutritional debates, rewarding readers who seek deeper understanding.
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ISBN: 9781910820087
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 May 2016
Country: Ireland
Imprint: University College Dublin Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 250
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About the Author
Professor Mike Gibney has worked as a teaching fellow at the University of Sydney where he took his PhD and has lectured at University of Southampton, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. He is a former President of the Nutrition Society and a fellow of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences. He has served on many high-level international advisory committees both in the EU, the FAO and WHO. His research area is in public health and personalised nutrition, and he has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers in the area. He has been Principal Investigator on several very large EU funded projects, most recently in the area of personalised nutrition (www.food4me.org). Previous publications include Nutrition, Diet and Health (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and Something to Chew On: Challenging Controversies in Food and Health (UCD Press, 2012). He writes a blog at 'Gibneyonfood'.
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