Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
A podcast by Oxford University
194 Episodes
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Evidence of the effectiveness of health-related food taxes
Published: 12/17/2014 -
It's not fat - it’s bioprene: marathon swimming and heroic fatness
Published: 12/17/2014 -
Rodent Models of Obesity-Reductionist Approaches to Understanding the Basis of a Complex Human Trait
Published: 12/17/2014 -
Exploring critical geographies of obesity and fatness: environments, bodies and activism
Published: 12/17/2014 -
From denial to corporate social responsibility: rhetoric of the food industry on obesity prevention
Published: 12/17/2014 -
The Disenchantment of the Plate
Published: 6/30/2014 -
What would the British food system look like if it took ecological public health at its heart?
Published: 6/30/2014 -
Bodies of water
Published: 6/30/2014 -
Microbes matter: metabolism and chronic disease in contemporary biomedicine
Published: 6/30/2014 -
How many bodies? The clinic, the kitchen and the context of obesity
Published: 6/30/2014 -
Obesity in the news media life cycle: ethics, responsibility, and stigmatisation
Published: 6/30/2014 -
Brief interventions for weight management in primary care
Published: 3/22/2014 -
Comparative political ecologies of food and diet: systems of provision in Trinidad and Cuba
Published: 3/22/2014 -
The intimacies of the celebrity chef industry: affects, effects and the mediation of eating
Published: 3/22/2014 -
Obesity and physical activity: from behaviour to environment
Published: 3/22/2014 -
Liminal living: eating disordered embodiment and the reconfiguring of social being
Published: 3/22/2014 -
Biocultural perspectives on globalizing fat stigma
Published: 12/9/2013 -
Tropical Medicine Obesity, systems and complexity
Published: 12/9/2013 -
Feeding the Elderly: A study of political, societal and individual practices regarding food for the elderly in Denmark 1880-2013
Published: 12/9/2013 -
Behavioural economics and eating habits
Published: 12/9/2013
The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This seminar series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.