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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 / Greg Critser.
Author
Critser, Greg, 1954-2018.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
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vii, 232 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
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 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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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-222) and index.
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Contents
1. Up up up! (or, Where the calories came from) -- 2. Supersize me (who got the calories into our bellies) -- 3. World without boundaries (who let the calories in) -- 4. Why the calories stayed on our bodies -- 5. What fat is, what fat isn't -- 6. What the extra calories do to you -- 7. What can be done.
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JBD 04-136
ISBN
0618164723
LCCN
2002032282
OCLC
50494981
Author
Critser, Greg, 1954-2018.
Title
Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world / Greg Critser.
Imprint
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-222) and index.
Additional Formats
Also available on the Internet.
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