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New research on obesity from K. Malterud and co-authors summarized

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 13th, 2010

A new study, "Norwegians fear fatness more than anything else"--a qualitative study of normative newspaper messages on obesity and health,' is now available. According to a study from Bergen, Norway, "To explore normative aspects of the Norwegian discourse on obesity. We conducted a qualitative study with data from five Norwegian newspapers, focusing normative entries about body weight."

"Discourse analysis provided a focus on the cultural attitudes when systematic text condensation was conducted. Data comprised 26 normative messages (prescriptions or comments on how obese people are or should be, messages mediating or discussing values prescribing a 'good' body). Two...

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