"...the simplicity promised by reductive approaches to nourishment often led to advice that was unintelligible or even destructive" (p22) #TheWeightOfObesity @eyatesd

#obesity #nutrition #publichealth #criticalpublichealth #criticaldietetics #darklogic #SDoH

"..."nutritional black-boxing" - the process of consolidating technical & historically contingent ideas about nourishment & the myriad relationships surrounding dietary practices into seemingly unproblematic terms..." (p56) #TheWeightOfObesity

"... #publichealth #nutrition has much to learn from listening to & valuing the knowledge that people already possess, even when it resists reductive simplicity." (p82) #TheWeightOfObesity

"...metrics surrounding size & shape connect to histories of race & exclusion in Guatemala." (p113) #TheWeightOfObesity

"...in framing fatness as the embodiment of willpower & agency, medical experts, joined by commercial interests, present "proper" body types as something that anyone can have..." (p113) #TheWeightOfObesity

"This treatment of #weight as the embodiment of #lifestyle confers scientific legitimacy on long-standing boundaries of exclusion, & does so in culturally familiar terms where #race is something to be personally controlled." (p128) #TheWeightOfObesity

"These practices of weighing articulate the various energies that go into these transactions as a single measure. In the market this becomes the measure of price; in the clinic this becomes the measure of health." (p133) #TheWeightOfObesity

#BMI

"Many times health workers reframed this [presenting issue] as a simple problem of excess wt. But there was a sense..the balance of the scale remained an inadequate descriptor of the many other concerns for balance that people confronted in their lives" (p150) #TheWeightOfObesity

"Situations in which different priorities of care collided were everywhere in my fieldwork." (p158) #TheWeightOfObesity

Lots of egs of #COI #CDoH throughout the book, esp in Chapter 6

Yates-Doerr "came to view metrification as a better descriptor than #medicalisation of the transitions occurring in the treatment of bodies, weights, & selves [in Guatemala]." (p163) #TheWeightOfObesity

"...metric-based approaches to eating well neglected so many aspects of the social, environmental, & political lives of obesity in Guatemala that the need for nonmetric treatment strategies was obvious to most everyone around me." (p171) #TheWeightOfObesity

#SDoH

Participants drew a distinction between overweight & fatness...

Fatness: a quality of health & happiness

Obesity: potential for illness

(p176) #TheWeightOfObesity

"The weight of the body may be too much weight to bear." (p183)

"I suggest that those concerned about the spread of global obesity might work to approach both bodies & health in context-dependent terms." (p184)

#TheWeightOfObesity