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

In mukbang, creators known as 'broadcast jockeys' (or mukbangers) consume a variety of foods, oft...

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

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...