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Despite Apocalyptic Predictions From A Vocal Alliance Of Health Professionals, Politicians And Social Commenatators That Rising Obesity Levels Would Lead To A Global Health Crisis, The Crisis Has Not Materialised.... Evidence Suggests That Obesity Rates Are Levelling Off In Western Societies, Life Expectancies Continue To Rise In Line With Rising Obesity Rates, And Across The World Policy-makers Have Remained Largely Indifferent And Inactive In The Face Of This Apparently Deadly Threat To Our Health And Well-being.... Gard Demonstrates That The Science Of Obesity Remains Radically Uncertain And That It Is Impossible To Establish An Objective 'truth' On Which To Base Policy.--publisher. The Beginning Is The End -- Worse Than Global Warming -- The Inconvenience Of Good News -- The View From Outside -- The Obvious Solution / With Carolyn Vander Schee -- Defenders Of The Truth: The Empirical Sceptics -- Power And Theory: The Ideological Sceptics -- The Challenge Of Thinking Well. Michael Gard. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.