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XL Love: How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life Hardcover - 2014

by Sarah Varney


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With two out of every three Americans overweight or obese, it's all hands on deck--scientists are studying how excess fat changes physical and mental health, demographers are calculating how it's shortening life spans, and economists are debating the impact it has on America's productivity and global competitiveness. But how weight affects intimacy and sexuality is barely discussed.

Yet it's a question of high importance for the tens of millions of Americans who are overweight or obese and having difficulty sexually and romantically. It is changing and complicating the mating game and married life alike; stunting the ability of young people to find happiness; and tipping some heavy, but otherwise happy, couples into divorce. For many, a larger body has meant a more troubled mind: a decline in sexual quality, an increase in self-loathing, and a tendency to let these factors stand in the way of love.

In XL Love, Varney travels the country and tells the personal stories of men and women who are experiencing what millions of others feel every day, along with the stories of those who are in the business of helping them: physicians, researchers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and more. Analytic and immersive, personal and eye-opening, XL Love tackles the question: How is sex changing in America as the shape of Americans changes?

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  • Title XL Love: How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life
  • Author Sarah Varney
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Ed 1st Pri
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rodale Books
  • Date 2014-08
  • ISBN 9781609614836 / 1609614836
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.38 x 6.23 x 0.97 in (23.83 x 15.82 x 2.46 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014003638

About the author

SARAH VARNEY is a senior health policy correspondent with Kaiser Health News. Her stories air regularly on NPR News and the PBS News Hour and appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Politico Magazine, The Atlantic.com and KHN's other print partners. She has reported extensively on health policy and health disparities within the public health sphere, and she has contributed to NPR's Living Large, a series on how obesity is changing life in America. She lives in San Francisco.
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