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      Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society

      Body Problems

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      Body Problems book

      Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society
      ByBen Agger
      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 19 August 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620602
      Pages 106
      eBook ISBN 9781315620602
      Subjects Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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      Agger, B. (2019). Body Problems: Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620602

      ABSTRACT

      Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing, fundamental dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories yet lead lifestyles and have jobs that for the most part do not enable us to expend those calories. He proposes solutions, both individual and structural, that involve re-orienting ourselves to exercise as play.

      This second edition has been updated to include a new chapter on food capitalism and a concluding passage arguing Cartesian dualism can be resolved by exercising vegans in ways that would thwart this food capitalism and give people immense control over their bodies, health, and well-being. The book is ideal for courses in introductory sociology, social problems, work, sociology of sport and leisure, gender, and health and illness.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter I|8 pages

      There was no Body Problem until Modernity

      Descartes, Henry Ford, Corn Syrup, Highways

      chapter II|8 pages

      Too Much of a Good Thing, and The Invention of Exercise

      chapter III|10 pages

      Body Sciences

      chapter IV|9 pages

      Body Industries

      chapter V|16 pages

      : Beyond Body Work

      chapter VI|4 pages

      Food Fights

      The Contested Terrain of the American Dinner Plate 1

      chapter VII|8 pages

      Vegans Who Run

      chapter VIII|5 pages

      Coda

      Toward 'Slowmodernity'
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