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Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic

Pearce, Jamie; & Witten, Karen. (2010). Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic. Ashgate Pub Co.

Pearce, Jamie; & Witten, Karen. (2010). Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic. Ashgate Pub Co.

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Over the past two decades, rates of adult and childhood obesity in the developed world have risen sharply. This study assembles the evidence for a geographical explanation of this trend, examining the ways in which environment and living conditions promote an imbalance of energy intake over energy expenditure.





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Pearce, Jamie
Witten, Karen



2010









Ashgate Pub Co


0754676196




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