Sugar Rush

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Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness

By Karen Throsby

Series: Inscriptions

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Sugar Rush examines the societal crusade against sugar in the early twenty-first century, revealing how sugar became the common enemy in debates around obesity and health. Karen Throsby explores the complex social, political, and cultural factors behind the demonisation of sugar, challenging the purely scientific narratives. The book draws on diverse sources including government policy, media, and personal accounts to argue that the anti-sugar movement reflects deeper anxieties and inequalities in contemporary society.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in public health, social policy, nutrition debates, and cultural studies. It offers valuable insights for educators, health professionals, and anyone curious about the politics behind dietary trends.

Sugar rush argues that despite its revolutionary claims, the contemporary attack on sugar represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

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In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play?

Sugar Rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the 'problem' of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the demonisation of fatness, with politics and popular culture preying on our anxieties about what we eat. Drawing on journalism, government policy, public health campaigns, self-help books, autobiographies, and documentaries, the book argues that this rush to blame sugar is a phenomenon of its time, finding fertile ground in the era of austerity and its attendant inequalities.

Inviting readers to resist the comforting certainties of the attack on sugar, Sugar Rush shows how this actually represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

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Jayne Raisborough, author of Fat Bodies, Health and the Media, praises the book as a smart and excellent challenge to prevailing questions about sugar, urging readers to reconsider the dominant narratives.

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ISBN: 9781526151551

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: 4 graphs

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 304

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Education & Reference Karen Throsby Non-Fiction Series: Inscriptions

About the Author

Karen Throsby has been researching issues of gender, technology, bodies and health for over 20 years, including work on reproductive technologies, weight loss surgery and endurance sport. She is the author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Identity and Embodiment (2016) and When IVF Fails: Feminist, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (2004). She is currently Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.

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