Download or read book Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles written by Stephen Kline and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles.