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Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet
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Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet

Author: Eric J Bailey
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
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Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabe Read more...

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Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Eric J Bailey
ISBN: 0865693307 9780865693302
OCLC Number: 63116892
Description: xii, 170 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. The African American overweight and obesity problem -- The African American weight problem -- Overweight and obesity among African Americans -- Pt. II. Sociocultural issues -- Body image preferences among African Americans -- Food preferences among African Americans -- Exercise and physical fitness perspectives among African Americans -- Adding African American culture to health, physical fitness, diet, and food programs -- Pt. III. The new cultural approach -- The new black cultural diet and lifestyle.
Responsibility: Eric J. Bailey.
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Abstract:

Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages. Bailey offers a new ʺculturalʺ diet for black Americans and a prescription for working collectively, not only to understand this critical health issue, but also to establish a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable. Includes information on African American adolescents, Delany sisters, Patty LaBelle, New Black Cultural Diet, Sisters Together, soul food, etc.

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