Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

• Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice

  How body size is used in research and discourse on health, bringing together theory from anthropology, sociology, public health and more. With llya Gutin, University of Texas at Austin

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• Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues

  Exploring the phenomenal range of roles estrogens play with respect to our metabolism – a range that is only just beginning to be understood. With Deborah Clegg, Texas Tech University

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• Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways

  Exploring children's views on their diets in relation to culture, identity and tradition in their everyday lives. With Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord, University of Agder, Norway

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• Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity

  Where or what is the difference between childhood obesity and fatness, who has the right to decide that, and why is it important? With Zofia Boni, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

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• Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context

  Looking at the complex relationships between adversity in childhood and obesity in adulthood, with Shakira Suglia, Emory University

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