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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

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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

by Greg Critser

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ISBN 13
9780713997392
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Allen Lane, 2003. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 240 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0713997397. ISBN/EAN: 9780713997392. Dewey Code: 614.593980973 22. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB10059. . 9780713997392

Synopsis

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 #
RB10059
Title
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Author
Greg Critser
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition
No Dust Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Early Edition
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0713997397
ISBN 13
9780713997392
Publisher
Allen Lane
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2003
Keywords
BZDB1 Sociology & Culture; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0713997397 EAN: 9780713997392 Greg Critser Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

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