?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title='Fat+people+and+bombs'%3AHPA+axis+cognition%2C+structured+stress%2C+and+the+US+obesity+epidemic&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Deborah&rft.subject=Psychobiology&rft.description=We+examine+the+accelerating+'obesity+epidemic'+in+the+US+from+the+perspective+of+recently+developed+theory+relating+a+cognitive+hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal+axis+to+an+embedding+'language'+of+structured+psychosocial+stress.++Using+a+Rate+Distortion+argument%2C+the+obesity+epidemic+is++found+to+represent+the+literal+writing+of+an+image+of+a+ratcheting+pathological+social+hierarchy+onto+the+bodies+of+American+adults+and+children.++This+process%2C+while+stratified+by+the+usual+divisions+of+class+and+ethnicity%2C+is+nonetheless+relentlessly+engulfing+even+affluent+majority+populations.++Our+perspective+places+the+common+explanation+that+'obesity+occurs+when+people+eat+too+much+and+get+too+little+exercise'+in+the++same+category+as+the+remark+by+US+President+Calvin+Coolidge+on+the+eve+of+the+Great+Depression+that+'unemployment+occurs+when+large+numbers+of+people+are+out+of+work'.++Both+statements+ignore+profound+structural+determinants+of+great+population+suffering+which+must+be+addressed+by+collective+actions+of+equally+great+reform.&rft.date=2003-01&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2745%2F1%2Ffat1.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick+and+Wallace%2C+Deborah++(2003)+'Fat+people+and+bombs'%3AHPA+axis+cognition%2C+structured+stress%2C+and+the+US+obesity+epidemic.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2745%2F