What's Wrong With Fat Book Review

In this week’s book What’s wrong with fat?, the author questioned and defies conventions in regard weight and health, and she shows how framing fatness in United States has clear connections with race, class and gender attributes, which are helping to reproducing and perpetuating the inequality under the capitalist system. The use of framing conceptualization was beneficial for my understanding of the social problems that fatness has become and, the stigmatization that these frames may imply.
Moreover, I found insightful how she speaks about guilt and responsibility for the so-called epidemic of obesity. She shows how in the U.S scientists, journalists and politicians tend to focus on individual responsibility. In doing so, they overlook the ways in which body size is tightly controlled by genetic factors and are shaped by social factors such as the limitations of socioeconomic status and neighborhood, including lack of access to local healthy food, a high density of fast food and lack of open space for exercise. This insights plus our discussion last week about nutrition policies, reinforce the idea that there is a great deal of research to do in how social problems are framed and what implications have for the most disadvantaged in every society. …show more content…
Leading scientists, journalists, and politicians are equal in minimize complexity and scientific uncertainty that surround the size of the body and health. I appreciated the use of this construct in the book, especially because is not only useful for the analysis of fatness and obesity, also –as she states- for the study of any social