Bibliography: Food, Fat, and Obesity
Scholarship and Writing
Bordo, Susan. 1993. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: Unviersity of California Press.
Braziel, Jana Evans & Kathleen LeBesco, Eds. 2001. Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Campos, Paul. 2005. The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to your Health. [also published as The Obesity Myth] New York: Penguin.
Coveney, John. 2000. Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating. London: Routledge.
Critser, Greg. 2003. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Glassner, Barry. 2007. The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat. New York: Perennial (HarperCollins).
Kolata, Gina. 2007. Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting. New York: Picador.
Kulick, Don & Anne Meneley, Eds. 2005. Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession. New York: Penguin.
LeBesco, Kathleen. 2004. Revolting Bodies: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity. Amhert: University of Massachusetts Press.
Nestle, Marion. 2002. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Oliver, J. Eric. 2006. Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ravnskov, Uffe. 2000. The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease. Washington, D.C.: New Trends Publishing.
Films
Chul-Soo, Park. 1995. 301, 302. South Korea.
Jaglom, Henry. 1990. Eating: A Very Serious Comedy About Women and Food. USA. Jagfilm.
Leonard, Brett. 2005. Feed. Australia. All At Once Productions, Honour Bright.