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Socialism and the Overweight Nation: Questions of Ideology, Science and Obesity in Czechoslovakia, 1950-1970

SYSNO ASEP	0335543
Document Type	C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.)
R&D Document Type	Conference Paper
Title	Socialism and the Overweight Nation: Questions of Ideology, Science and Obesity in Czechoslovakia, 1950-1970
Title	Socialismus a tloustnoucí národ. Otázky ideologie, vědy a obezity v letech 1950-1970
Author(s)	Franc, Martin (MSUA-W)_{SAI, SAI, RID, ORCID}
Source Title	The Rise of Obesity in Europe. A Twentieth Century Food History. - Burlington-Farnham : Ashgate, 2009 / Oddy D. J. ; Atkins P. J. ; Amilien V. - ISBN 978-0-7546-7696-6
Pages	s. 193-205
Number of pages	13 s.
Action	From Under-Nutrition to Obesity: Changes in Food Consumption in Twentieth-Century Europe
Event date	25.09.2007-29.09.2007
VEvent location	Oslo
Country	NO - Norway
Event type	WRD
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	history of nutrition ; obesity ; socialism
Subject RIV	AB - History
CEZ	AV0Z80770509 - A-Z, MSUA-W (2005-2011)
EID SCOPUS	78049412570
Annotation	The article is aimed at discussions on the issues of nutrition and fight against obesity in Czechoslovakia between 1950-1970. Role of prices and oficial ideology were very important for diet of people in the time. For example a large part of society still maintained memories of the war and post-war insufficiency which obviously increased the importance of food in the social hierarchy of values. The term „obesity“ was changing from the point of view of regime. First there were efforts to interpret the growing number of obese people as evidence of the rising standard of living in the regime established after 1948. Later the medical opinion increasingly dominated in the anti-obesity campaign. There was for example criticism of the Czech "traditional" cuisine with its high content of fats and saccharides as a part of the fight against obesity.
Workplace	Masaryk Institute - Archives (since 2006)
Contact	Jan Boháček, bohacek@mua.cas.cz, Tel.: 286 010 134
Year of Publishing	2010

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