What's wrong with fat ? - Grand Format

What's Wrong with Fat ? presents each of the various ways in which fat is understood in America today, examining the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we've come to understand the issue in these terms, despite considerable scientific uncertainty and debate. Saguy shows how debates over the relationship between body size and health risk take place within a larger—though often invisible—contest over whether we should understand fatness as obesity at all.
Moreover, she reveals that public discussions of the "obesity crisis" do more harm than good—leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses. Showing that the medical framing of fat is literally making us sick, What's Wrong with Fat ? provides a crucial corrective to our society's misplaced obsession with weight.