Food Choice and Obesity in Black America
Subtitle: Creating a New Cultural Diet
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: May 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780865693302
Subjects: Anthropology; Family & Health; Food & Drink / Cookery; Nutrition; Food preferences; Diets - Weight Loss; Social aspects; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; USA; General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Lifest; Health & Fitness / General; Diet / Health / Fitness; Obesity; United States; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African Americans; Health and hygiene
Description: 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.