The fat of the land : the obesity epidemic and how overweight Americans can help themselves / Michae...
The fat of the land : the obesity epidemic and how overweight Americans can help themselves / Michae...
The fat of the land : the obesity epidemic and how overweight Americans can help themselves / Michael Fumento.
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Publisher
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N616.3980097/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xx, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / JoAnn E. Manson -- 1. The Perils of Poundage -- 2. One Nation, Overweight -- 3. The Low-Fat Myth -- 4. Give Us This Day Our Daily Half Pound of Sugar -- 5. Big Fat Myths That Make Us Fatter -- 6. The Profiteers -- 7. Diets Don't Work - Except When They Do -- 8. The Fiber Factor -- 9. Exer...
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Publisher
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
Along the way he also found that the tens of billions of dollars that the diet and health industries reap annually from "treating" the obese result in many products, programs, and books that are often far worse than useless. Determined to share the information that transformed his life, he explodes such popular myths as the "setpoint theory" and th...
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The fat of the land : the obesity epidemic and how overweight Americans can help themselves / Michael Fumento.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-322) and index.
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N616.3980097/1
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74VvPlxaZxkO
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ISBN
0670870595 (alk. paper)
9780670870592 (alk. paper)
DDC
616.39800973
MMS ID
991005747019702626
