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Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies$
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Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies

Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey, and Stanley Ulijaszek

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780197264980

Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2013

DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264980.001.0001

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Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies
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Avner Offer

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DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264980.003.0001

Obesity, which is rising in affluent societies, is bad for health, expensive to treat and stigmatising. Its prevalence is higher in market-liberal societies than in those with a more extensive welfare state. This book explores the hypothesis that obesity is a response to stress, and that market-liberal societies are more stressful due to the greater intensity of economic and social competition, and to lower levels of social protection.

Keywords:   obesity, stigma, affluent societies, market-liberal societies, response to stress

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