| Description |
xxvi, 224 pages ; 22 cm |
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Contents note continued: Can Retailers Change the Chinese Diet for the Better? -- ch. 6 Fast Fat --- The Impact of Fast-Food in China -- The Fast Food Nation -- Like Most Things, the Chinese Invented Fast Food! -- The Colonel and the Clown: KFC and McDonald's Compete for China -- McDonald's --- Beefing Up -- KFC --- Chickening Out -- Coffee and Pizza: Exotic Imports for an Eclectic New Consumer Class -- Wonton ̀U' Like --- The Rise of Domestic Fast Food Chains -- A Plethora of Fast-Food Choices -- Supersized in China -- How Much of the Obesity Problem is Related Directly to Fast-Food? -- ch. 7 Selling Fat --- Promoting Fat in China -- Who Persuaded the Chinese that They Like Coffee? -- Advertising and Obesity -- Moves on Advertising -- You Sold Us the Fat, Now Sell Us the Cure -- ch. 8 Little Fat Emperors --- Obesity Among China's Children -- One Family, One Child -- The Six Pocket Syndrome and Loaded Teens -- Hong Kong Offers an Example -- The Most Important Meal of the Day -- |
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Contents note continued: Nutrition and Nutritionists -- The Cost of Failure -- Conclusion: The Future of Fat China --- Victims of their Own Success? -- Lifestyle --- The New Threat |
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Contents note continued: Rice and Grain --- It Ain't What it Used to Be -- Potatoes --- A Highly Productive Vegetable -- Aquatic Produce --- All the Fish in the Sea -- Fruit and Vegetables --- More Choice, More Availability -- Dairy --- Breaking Down Taboos -- The Sectors Compared -- Sugar --- China's Sweet Tooth -- Salt --- Goitres Down, Blood Pressure Up -- Oils and Fats --- The ̀Hidden Ingredients' -- Alcoholic Drinks --- China's Beer Belly -- Soft Drinks --- Fizzy China -- The Hidden Dangers --- MSG, Trans Fats and Interesterified Fats -- Food Poisoning: Bad Practice -- Going Green...Maybe -- GM Foods --- Frankenstein's Kitchen? -- And so in Today's HFSS World... -- Identifying the ̀Evil' -- ch. 5 Shelves of Fat --- Food Retailing in China -- Where Has All the Fresh Food Gone? -- Busier Lifestyles --- Changing the Way People Act -- Shopping: China's National Sport -- Supermarket Sweep -- Selling-Up the Farm -- Problems of Distribution --- Changing the Way Food is Supplied -- |
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Contents note continued: School Lunches -- Sport for All? -- It's Tough Being a Kid -- ch. 9 The Fat and the Thin --- China's Body Image -- To Get Thin is Glorious -- The Fat/Thin Contradiction -- Wanted: Only the Pretty Need Apply -- Diets and Dieting -- Body Beautiful, Courtesy of the Surgeon -- Suck Out the Fat -- Pill Popping --- Slimming Pills, Laxatives and Anorectics -- Eating Disorders --- Still a Taboo -- ch. 10 China's Fat Clinic --- The Impact of Obesity on China's Healthcare System -- The Pressures on the Healthcare System -- Confucian Notions of Protection -- Nobody to Tell You You're Obese -- ̀Basically a Failure' --- The Need to Rethink -- The Dilemma of Reform --- Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Insuring the Obese -- The Core Conditions -- The Cost of Obesity --- The Available Evidence -- Take the Evidence, and Multiply That by China -- What are the Potential Costs of Obesity to China? -- Can the Cost be Reduced? -- Beijing and Big Pharma -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 China Gets on the Scales -- Quantifying the Size of the Problem -- Weighing the Nation -- From Famine to Feast -- Obesity and Children -- China's Obesity Epidemic -- ch. 2 China's Fat Class -- Defining China's Middle Class? -- How Big is China's Middle Class? -- What About the Rest of China? -- More Money --- More Temptation to Eat -- ch. 3 Fat City --- Obesity and Urbanisation -- Living an Obeseogenic Life -- Fat-Creating Cities -- Instant Noodles, Instant Cities -- Fat Flats -- Parks and Privatized Space -- The Rise of the Chinese Suburb -- Is There a Link between Urbanization and Obesity? -- Obese City or Healthy City? -- ch. 4 Mega-Wok --- China's Diet from Cabbage to Cuisine -- Economies of Scale --- More, More, More -- Moving Up the Food Chain -- Pork --- The National Meat -- Poultry --- Chickens Die Younger in China Now -- Eggs --- Consumption Pattern May Change Due to Lifestyles -- Beef --- Eating Wealth -- |
| Summary |
Paul French and Matthew Crabbe examine the causes and effects of China's rapidly expanding waistlines in a new book on Chinese obesity. Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation's changing diet, lifestyle trends, investment from foreign fast food and supermarket retailers and urban planning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Body image -- China.
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Diet -- China.
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Lifestyles -- China.
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Obesity -- China.
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Obesity.
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Body Image.
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Diet.
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Life Style.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
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China. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002681 |
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China. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002681 |
| Author |
Crabbe, Matthew.
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| LC no. |
2010036953 |
| ISBN |
0857289659 (paperback) |
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0857289780 (hbk.) |
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0857289861 (ebook) |
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9780857289650 (papercover : alk. paper) |
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9780857289780 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780857289865 (ebook : alk. paper) |
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