THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF OBESITY: HOW THE MODERN WORLD IS MAKING US FAT
Book ID/图书代码: 10834008B23566
English Summary/英文概要: The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity argues that the skyrocketing increase in obesity levels is not caused by individuals’ moral weakness, but is due to modern society’s lack of the virtues necessary for people to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. In a fresh and highly original approach, the book identifies a set of seven social and environmental "sins" that characterize our contemporary world:
1.an obsession with consumption
2.an all-pervasive sense of time pressure
3.parenting pressures
4.technological obsessions
5.a reliance on motor vehicles
6.the marketing of unhealthy products
7.competing sources of advice.
After discussing each of these key environmental determinants, the book explains the unequal distribution of obesity by social, cultural, and economic indicators, and concludes with an exploration of what actions are needed to "save" the environment from its sinful dynamism.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 近年來肥胖人口逐漸增加。根據中華民國全適能健康生活發展協會的統計資料,台灣的肥胖人口已從20年前的12%提高到2004年的44%,已超過1000萬人;若依據行政院主計處的統計資料,2006年全台灣19歲以上過重者約為600萬人。
此書認為造成肥胖的重要因素不在於個人意志力薄弱,而是整個社會結構與環境造成的。並提出現代社會造成肥胖的七項 ”原罪”。
1.過度消費
2.時間不足
3.父母過度照顧
4.科技成癮
5.過度依賴交通工具
6.不健康的食品—如人造嬰兒食品對人們的影響甚鉅(看看最近的毒奶粉事件)
7.過多的資訊來源造成人們無所不吃
作者們以多項社會、文化、經濟指標討論這些造成肥胖的原罪,更進一步提出解開這些原罪的建言。(VC)
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