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Question 1: Compare various definitions of overweight and obese: compare US government definitions vs. the social construction of obese.

Question 2: What clothing size is a Plus size for men and women? How are overweight people portrayed in the media; what characteristics do these characters share?

Question 3: What is the research on how overweight people are treated? What are their experiences of discrimination and verbal abuse?

• Chef Samuelson is ethnically Ethiopian but was adopted and raised by Swedish parents and grandparents from whom he learned Scandinavian cookery. What is known as International Fusion Cuisine includes components of two or more distinct cookery traditions. Some hail this development.
• Others bewail the loss of cultural integrity that they fear will occur if the fusions "crowd out" the original distinctions of the "less powerful" culture's cuisine. Thus we have a political power struggle played out in cultural terms, in this case, food. Provide one solid, logical argument, based on the hegemony theory you have learned, in favor of EACH point of view. Provide one solid, logical rebuttal to each argument.

Question 4: What do Harris and others suggest as a hypothesis to explain patterns of people-eating and insect-eating? Why is it more common in certain societies than in others? References required.