Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either p...

Over seventy per cent of the population in industrialized nations live in cities; soon, so will m...

Looks at energy intake, expenditure and balance in traditional subsistence populations.

Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might...

Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subje...

Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subje...

Seasonality has effects on a wide range of human functions and activities, and is important in th...

The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past ...

The early environment in which we grow up has profound, long lasting, and often irreversible cons...

Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology and is used in a wide range of applied and r...

Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial admin...

Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology and is used in a wide range of applied and r...

Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial admin...

The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past ...

How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to...

While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by i...

The early environment in which we grow up has profound, long lasting, and often irreversible cons...

While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by i...

Looks at energy intake, expenditure and balance in traditional subsistence populations.

Unique in its approach, this work updates our understanding of human variation by employing both ...

How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to...

Unique in its approach, this work updates our understanding of human variation by employing both ...

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways that obesity and its susceptibilit...

The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approach...

A comprehensive but accessible account of the current understanding of the factors affecting huma...