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The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous To Your Healthby Paul CamposISBN 159240135X (1-59240-135-X)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous To Your Health'Book summary:Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about Americas "obesity epidemic." Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary "ideal weight." Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin.
After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteriaand to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale. But The Obesity Myth is not just a compelling argument, grounded in the latest scientific research; its also a provocative, wry exposé of the culture that feeds on our self-defeating war on fat. Campos will show:
* How the nations most prestigious and trusted media sources consistently misinform the public about obesity
* What the movie industrys love affair with the "fat suit" tells us about the relationship between racial- and body-based prejudice in America
* How the skinny elitewith their "supersized" lifestyles and gas-guzzling SUVsproject their anxieties about overconsumption on the poorer and heavier underclass
* How weight-loss mania fueled the impeachment of Bill Clinton
In this paradigm-busting read, Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political, and cultural meaning of weight and brings a rational and compelling new voice to Americas increasingly irrational weight debate.
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Jurismania: The Madness of American Lawby Paul CamposISBN 0195130839 (0-19-513083-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jurismania: The Madness of American Law'Book summary:"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." --Henry IV, Part I
Or, suggests Paul F. Campos, at the very least, let's put them out of their misery. In Jurismania, Campos does his best to demonstrate that the behavior of the legal mind, with its insistence on the "rule of law," is a "culturally sanctioned form of obsessive-compulsive behavior." In his more charitable moments, he is willing to concede that it may be suffering not from delusion, but from religious fervor. About the nicest thing he has to say about the American legal system is that it is a tremendous waste of financial resources.
The problem, as Campos sees it, is an irrational belief in the power of rationality to solve all our problems, which leads to the elevation of "social coordination and dispute processing," which is what Campos identifies as the purpose of "law," to sacrosanct procedures that are inadequate to the tasks they are being asked to perform. Nor is this state of mind limited to lawyers and legal academics; consider, suggests Campos, that many voters believe in the balanced budget amendment, "which boils down to the belief that the best way to ensure legislators pass legislation that balances the federal budget is to pass legislation requiring legislators to pass legislation that balances the federal budget." There are some situations, the author argues, for which "more law" is not the answer. Readers may find Campos's style--which references Nietzschean ethics, college football, materialist rationalism, and Ann Landers as part of the same overall argument--off-putting, but Jurismania is like a voice crying in the wilderness, describing a crisis our increasingly litigious society continues to ignore at its peril. [via]
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The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality And Ideologyby Paul CamposISBN 0415318955 (0-415-31895-5)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Obesity Myth: Why Our Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous to Our Healthby Paul Campos , Paul ErnsbergerISBN 0670042846 (0-670-04284-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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Taking Up Spaceby Paul Campos , Pattie Thomas, Carl WilkersonISBN 1597190020 (1-59719-002-0)
Softcover, Pearlsong Pr Inc
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