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Description: GUEST: Sabrina Strings, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her new book is called Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat PhobiannBACKGROUND: Obesity we are told, is the scourge of health, linked to a large number of debilitating diseases including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer and more. For women especially obesity comes with societal judgments rooted in notions of impossible skinniness. nnA new book examines how our attitudes tow
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