Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world / Greg Critser.
Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world / Greg Critser.
Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world / Greg Critser.
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Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N362.1/147
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English
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Physical content
vii, 232 p. ; 22 cm.
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 in Our Bodies -- 5. What Fat Is, What Fat Isn't -- 6. What the Extra Calories Do to Yo -- 7. What Can Be D...
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Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet books - 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...
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Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world / Greg Critser.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-222) and index.
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N362.1/147
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0618164723
9780618164721 (hbk.)
0618164723 (hbk.)
9780618164721
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362.19639800973
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991015898459702626
