An edition of XL love (2014)

XL love

how the obesity crisis is complicating America's love life

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An edition of XL love (2014)

XL love

how the obesity crisis is complicating America's love life

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"With two out of every three Americans overweight or obese, it's all hands on deck--scientists are studying how excess fat changes physical and mental health, demographers are calculating how it's shortening life spans, and economists are debating the impact it has on America's productivity and global competitiveness. But how weight affects intimacy and sexuality is barely discussed. Yet it's a question of high importance for the tens of millions of Americans who are overweight or obese and having difficulty sexually and romantically. It is changing and complicating the mating game and married life alike; stunting the ability of young people to find happiness; and tipping some heavy, but otherwise happy, couples into divorce. For many, a larger body has meant a more troubled mind: a decline in sexual quality, an increase in self-loathing, and a tendency to let these factors stand in the way of love. In XL Love, Varney travels the country and tells the personal stories of men and women who are experiencing what millions of others feel every day, along with the stories of those who are in the business of helping them: physicians, researchers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and more. Analytic and immersive, personal and eye-opening, XL Love tackles the question: How is sex changing in America as the shape of Americans changes?"--

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246

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Table of Contents

Beginnings : puberty, puppy love, and the prom
Dating : failure to launch
Marriage : in thickness and in health
Sex : the birds and the bees with aching knees
Pleasures : Sammee in Sin City
Futures : weight loss.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index.

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2014

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.1963/9800973
Library of Congress
RC552.O25 V37 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 246 pages ;
Number of pages
246

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Open Library
OL26460083M
Internet Archive
xllovehowobesity0000varn
ISBN 10
1609614836
ISBN 13
9781609614836
LCCN
2014003638
OCLC/WorldCat
871037140

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