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Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet / Eric J. Bailey.

Title
Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet / Eric J. Bailey.
Author
Bailey, Eric J., 1958-
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.

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xii, 170 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages. Bailey offers a new ʺculturalʺ diet for black Americans and a prescription for working collectively, not only to understand this critical health issue, but also to establish a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable. Includes information on African American adolescents, Delany sisters, Patty LaBelle, New Black Cultural Diet, Sisters Together, soul food, etc.
Subject
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Food Preferences
  • Diet, Reducing
  • Cultural Characteristics
  • Black or African American
  • Obesity
  • Obesity > United States
  • Food preferences > United States
  • African Americans > Social aspects
  • Reducing diets > Social aspects
  • United States
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. The African American overweight and obesity problem. The African American weight problem -- Overweight and obesity among African Americans -- Part II. Sociocultural issues. Body image preferences among African Americans -- Food preferences among African Americans -- Exercise and physical fitness perspectives among African Americans -- Adding African American culture to health, physical fitness, diet, and food programs -- Part III. The new cultural approach. The new black cultural diet and lifestyle.
ISBN
  • 0865693307 (alk. paper)
  • 9780865693302 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006001234
OCLC
  • 63116892
  • SCSB-11598120
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library