… an attempt to understand what obesity is as a social construct and how it relates to … obesity
as a diagnosis: 1. Physicians’ professional definitions of and organization around obesity …

… challenges of our age”—another nominalizing construction which discursively collapses the
… underpin obesity into a “health challenge”—a “great” one at that—and one that is owned (our…

… Perceptions related to why obesity is and is not a … impact, and defeatism due to misaligned
expectation and outcome. In conclusion, people living with obesity tend to agree obesity is a …

… and critiquing obesity epidemic thinking, we refer to our work … (a) the social construction of
an obesity epidemic depends on … words, such as obesity, are a necessary part of our empirical …

… social structures (eg socio-economic status and ethnicity), which appear to be more significant
for health … and valorizing “healthy” eating as proposed in the “Quebec Healthy Food Table…

… how media frames of obesity are not universal but … and social structures which can, in turn,
influence the development and implementation of social policies relating to obesity and health(…

… Our article explores orthorexia nervosa (ON)—an extreme … with healthy eating—from a
social construction perspective. Interviews with people self-identified as “obsessed” with healthy …

… Rather than trivialize such concerns, I will offer the sociological argument that the war on
obesity risks obfuscating social structures and processes that demand critical interpretation. …

… as a result of social construction. As I will demonstrate, social and cultural ideas about …
examines the possible path to understanding the social construction of the “obesity epidemic…

… “Obese” and “obesity” are not words that this paper will be … which is inherent within our
medical system kills. This paper … to reinforce lucrative power structures through inequitable …