PMID- 23914074
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 0958-1596 (Print)
IS  - 1469-3682 (Electronic)
IS  - 0958-1596 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 3
DP  - 2013 Sep
TI  - 'Diabesity' down under: overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for type 2 
      diabetes mellitus.
PG  - 274-288
AB  - Although overweight and obesity are increasingly seen as the key 'risk factors' 
      for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), the relationship between them is complex and 
      not well understood. There are many 'risk factors' for T2DM, including ageing, 
      genetics, previous gestational diabetes, a family history of the disease, etc. 
      the interplay of which is not entirely clear. While weight gain is a common 
      symptom of T2DM and the disease appears to be more prevalent among 'obese' 
      people, individuals from a broad range of weights (including those considered 
      'healthy') can develop the disease. However, in recent years, the idea that 
      fatness is the risk factor and/or central cause of T2DM has become increasingly 
      prevalent and naturalized in popular, academic, and public health discourses in 
      Australia. In these convergences, the complex etiology of the disease and 
      limitations in current knowledge are blurred or reconstituted. To date, the 
      potency of overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for T2DM and its 
      consequences has received little attention. Drawing on an analysis of government 
      reports, journal articles, and media coverage published since 1998, this article 
      sets out to trace and unpack some of the contours of these convergences, while 
      recognizing their entanglement in earlier moralizing discourses, which continue 
      to have considerable salience.
FAU - McNaughton, Darlene
AU  - McNaughton D
AD  - Department of Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130218
PL  - England
TA  - Crit Public Health
JT  - Critical public health
JID - 9810774
PMC - PMC3725668
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - critique
OT  - ethics
OT  - sociology of health
EDAT- 2013/08/06 06:00
MHDA- 2013/08/06 06:01
CRDT- 2013/08/06 06:00
PHST- 2012/11/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/01/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/08/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/08/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/08/06 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1080/09581596.2013.766671 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Crit Public Health. 2013 Sep;23(3):274-288. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2013.766671. 
      Epub 2013 Feb 18.