Social Aspects of Obesity

Part 1: Cultural fattening processes: Physique of Sumo Wrestlers in Relation to Some Cultural Characteristics of Japan; Fertility and Fat - The Among Fattening Room; Social Fattening Patterns in the Pacific - The Positive Side of Obesity; A Nauru Case Study; Taste, Food Regimes and Fatness - A Study in Social Stratification; Vegetarianism and Fatness - An Undervalued Perception of the Body. Part 2: Physical and social aspects: Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Human Obesity; Obesity and Physical Fitness -an Age-Dependent Functional and Social Handicap; Educational Attainment, Stress Hormones, Body Fat and Health - A Sociocultural Neuroendocrine Pathway? Part 3: Social phenomenon associated with obesity: Changing Food Consumption and Body Image Among Malays; Polynesian Responses to Modernization - Overweight and Obesity in the South Pacific; Activity Level and Obesity Among Samoans; Evaluation of Fatness in Traditional Japanese Society.