Regulating consumption: many efforts-with what effects? -- How is obesity a problem -- Appearance bias-fat rights -- Assessing interventions -- Just the facts?: educating, mandating information, controlling advertising, restricting marketing to children -- Fiscal interventions: fat taxes and subsidies -- Encouraging physical activity: children at play
Summary
This book explores the effectiveness of legal interventions aimed at promoting healthier lifestyles. The book suggests that the government's emphasis on encouraging weight loss and preventing excess gain have largely failed to resolve obesity and have instead fueled prejudice against fat people. It suggests that a major challenge lies in shifting norms away from stigmatization of the obese and towards more nutritious and healthy lifestyle habits in addition to the acceptance of bodies in all shapes and sizes
