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Fat and the Wrecked Body [PDF]

open access: possible, 2018
This chapter furthers ideas about men’s experiences of fat and draws connections between body, identity and thwarted belonging, along with the effects of stigma and spoiled identity. Ambivalent experience of using online pro-eating disorders spaces is discussed.
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Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body

2016
In recent decades the rise of the so-called "global obesity epidemic" has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas. Fatness and fat bodies are shamed and demonised, and the public monitoring, surveillance and outright policing by the media, health professionals, and the general public are ...
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Body Fatness and Cancer

New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
Shereen, Rafee   +2 more
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Body Silhouette and Body Fat Distribution

2007
Body silhouette is defined by skeleton framework, muscle masses and fat distribution All these anatomical components are genetically fixed, related to growth hormones and sex hormones, and modified by extrinsic factors such as age, physical exercise, diet, constrictive garments, way of living and general health conditions.
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Fat Bodies and Sex

Science, 2002
GENETICS Sex determination in the fruit fly Drosophila is mediated by an elaborate network of master regulators, including the transcription factor Doublesex. The target genes of these regulators are of great interest as they may shed light on the mechanisms that create sex-specific differences in morphology, physiology, and behavior. By screening for
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Sclerostin and body fat

Medicina Clínica (English Edition), 2015
Onán Pérez-Hernández   +3 more
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Lorenzo Cohen   +2 more
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Body Fat

Scientific American, 1959
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Fixing the Fat Body

2014
The abject is the realm of “I don’t want to be that!” (Butler 1993, 3). Butler describes the abject body as the material body that has smeared or blurred symbolic borders. The fat body is abject and hyper(in)visible. It is considered grotesque, it is loathed, and many go to extreme measures to eradicate it.
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