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The Obesity Epidemic.
01 Aug 2015-Gastroenterología y Hepatología (Millenium Medical Publishing)-Vol. 11, Iss: 8, pp 502-502
TL;DR: The complications and mortality of bariatric procedures have decreased such that the risk-benefit ratio favors a broader application in the medically complicated obese population, and the authors note that the importance of nutrition and diet in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
About: This article is published in Gastroenterología y Hepatología.The article was published on 2015-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.
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TL;DR: The history of physical education has seen the embracing of practices that have promised idealized scenarios and visions of the future as discussed by the authors. But these practices are in many respects ideological and this pap...
Abstract: The history of physical education has seen the embracing of practices that have promised idealized scenarios and visions of the future. These practices are in many respects ideological and this pap ...
28 citations
Cites background from "The Obesity Epidemic."
...Lately, PE as exercise has been further enmeshed within obesity discourses where young people are positioned as at risk (Gard & Wright, 2005; McKenzie & Lounsbery, 2009), and highly vulnerable given their physical inactivity and ‘addiction’ to computers, social media and high-fat food....
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...…history of PE has seen the embracing of practices that have promised idealized scenarios and visions of the future, albeit with national and contextual variations that nonetheless demonstrate significant similarities (e.g. Gard & Wright, 2005; Kirk, 2010; McKenzie & Lounsbery, 2009; Tinning, 2012)....
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TL;DR: It is argued that public health services for those identified as obese and overweight need to draw on public pedagogy approaches by creating shared learning spaces for ethical and respectful knowledge exchange about physical activity, health and wellbeing as opposed to a stigmatising weight-centric ideal of weight management service delivery.
Abstract: Physical activity is typically part of public health weight management programmes in the UK, but despite critical debate about obesity science and discourse, fatness and physical activity, the focu...
19 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, higher education physical education can provide opportunities for students to develop meaning and value towards movement experiences, however, it is an under-studied area of higher education.
Abstract: Background: Higher education (HE) physical education (PE) can provide opportunities for students to develop meaning(s) and value(s) towards movement experiences. However, it is an under researched ...
15 citations
TL;DR: The production of knowledge within the social sciences has contributed both to the oppression and liberation of fat people as mentioned in this paper, and four fat activists review the role that social science has played in this process.
Abstract: The production of knowledge within the social sciences has contributed both to the oppression and liberation of fat people. In this piece, four fat activists review the role that social science cou...
12 citations
Cites background from "The Obesity Epidemic."
...Gard and Wright (2005) argue in their book, The obesity epidemic: Science, morality and ideology, ‘the current state of our scientific “knowledge” about overweight and obesity is not so much incomplete as confused and replete with flawed and misleading assumptions’ (3)....
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...Work is done on the relationship between fatness and other chronic illnesses, on the impact of fatness on the internal organs and metabolic system of the individual (Gard and Wright 2005)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, messages and initiatives around childhood obesity, health and fitness continue to circulate multiple pedagogical sites (physical education, after-school, media), reproducing the message.
Abstract: Background and purpose: Messages and initiatives around childhood obesity, health and fitness continue to circulate multiple pedagogical sites (physical education, after-school, media), reproducing...
8 citations
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TL;DR: The history of physical education has seen the embracing of practices that have promised idealized scenarios and visions of the future as discussed by the authors. But these practices are in many respects ideological and this pap...
Abstract: The history of physical education has seen the embracing of practices that have promised idealized scenarios and visions of the future. These practices are in many respects ideological and this pap ...
28 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that public health services for those identified as obese and overweight need to draw on public pedagogy approaches by creating shared learning spaces for ethical and respectful knowledge exchange about physical activity, health and wellbeing as opposed to a stigmatising weight-centric ideal of weight management service delivery.
Abstract: Physical activity is typically part of public health weight management programmes in the UK, but despite critical debate about obesity science and discourse, fatness and physical activity, the focu...
19 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, higher education physical education can provide opportunities for students to develop meaning and value towards movement experiences, however, it is an under-studied area of higher education.
Abstract: Background: Higher education (HE) physical education (PE) can provide opportunities for students to develop meaning(s) and value(s) towards movement experiences. However, it is an under researched ...
15 citations
TL;DR: The production of knowledge within the social sciences has contributed both to the oppression and liberation of fat people as mentioned in this paper, and four fat activists review the role that social science has played in this process.
Abstract: The production of knowledge within the social sciences has contributed both to the oppression and liberation of fat people. In this piece, four fat activists review the role that social science cou...
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, messages and initiatives around childhood obesity, health and fitness continue to circulate multiple pedagogical sites (physical education, after-school, media), reproducing the message.
Abstract: Background and purpose: Messages and initiatives around childhood obesity, health and fitness continue to circulate multiple pedagogical sites (physical education, after-school, media), reproducing...
8 citations