Sugar and Modernity in Latin America
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread with frightening speed all over the globe, a development that is often correlated with an increase in the consumption of sugar. Latin America - the cradle of the worlds sugar production - is no exception; it has witnessed an explosion of cases of diabetes, especially in Brazil and Mexico. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the problem, this book asks two questions. First, what are the relationships between diabetes, sugar intake, and dangerous modern lifestyles? And second, how can research into the material, symbolic, and historical functions of sugar…
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Weitere Autoren: Hojlund, Susanne (Hrsg.) / Jeppesen, Per Bendix (Hrsg.) / Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-87-7124-362-8
- EAN: 9788771243628
- Produktnummer: 34841729
- Verlag: Aarhus University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'253 KB
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