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FAT LAND: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

FAT LAND: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

FAT LAND: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
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FAT LAND: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

by Critser, Greg

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. **WILL SHIP WITHIN 24-48 HOURS WITH TRACKING**

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What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders). Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles schools' opening of the nutritional floodgates in the lunchroom and his examination of the political and cultural forces that have set the bar on American fitness low and then lower, are both discerning reporting and impassioned wake-up calls. Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet book - including Dr. Atkins's - unturned. Fashions, both leisure and street, and American-style religion are subject to Critser's gimlet eye as well. Memorably, Fat Land takes on baby-boomer parenting shibboleths - that young children won't eat past the point of being full and that the dinner table isn't the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose. Critser's brilliantly drawn futuristic portrait of a Fat America just around the corner and his all too contemporary foray into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but brilliantly rendered portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
FAT LAND: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Author
Critser, Greg
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0618164723
ISBN 13
9780618164721
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
2003
Pages
232
Keywords
YAEL WADE

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