Short Black 2 Fat City

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Health
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Author: Karen Hitchcock ISBN: 9781925203486
Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd Publication: September 23, 2015
Imprint: Black Inc. Short Blacks Language: English
Author: Karen Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781925203486
Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
Publication: September 23, 2015
Imprint: Black Inc. Short Blacks
Language: English

I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. “Nothing,” he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: “I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I’m addicted to eating. I’m addicted.” He punches his thigh.

In Fat City, Karen Hitchcock unpicks the idea of obesity as a disease. In a riveting blend of story and analysis, she explores chemistry, psychology and the impulse to excess to explain the West’s growing obesity epidemic.

Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.

Karen Hitchcock is the author of the award-winning story collection Little White Slips and a regular contributor to the Monthly. She is also a staff physician in acute and general medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.

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I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. “Nothing,” he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: “I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I’m addicted to eating. I’m addicted.” He punches his thigh.

In Fat City, Karen Hitchcock unpicks the idea of obesity as a disease. In a riveting blend of story and analysis, she explores chemistry, psychology and the impulse to excess to explain the West’s growing obesity epidemic.

Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.

Karen Hitchcock is the author of the award-winning story collection Little White Slips and a regular contributor to the Monthly. She is also a staff physician in acute and general medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.

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