Fat Land Highlights The Groundbreaking Research That Implicates Cheap Fats And Sugars As The Alarming New Metabolic Factors 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 Obesity In 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 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 The Place To Talk About Food Rules - And Gives Advice Many Families Will Use To Lose.--jacket. 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. Greg Critser. Originally Published: 2003. A Mariner Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 185-222) And Index.

Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Mariner Books

Holt McDougal

Clarion Books

United States, United States of America

Boston, MA, ©2003

January 5, 2004

Reprint, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-222) and index.
"A Mariner book".

subject: Obesity

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Acknowledgments
2. (p2) Preface to the Mariner Books Edition
3. (p3) Introduction
4. (p4) 1. Up Up Up! (Or, Where the Calories Came From)
5. (p5) 2. Supersize Me (Who Got the Calories into Our Bellies)
6. (p6) 3. World Without Boundaries (Who Let the Calories In)
7. (p7) 4. Why the Calories Stayed on Our Bodies
8. (p8) 5. What Fat Is, What Fat Isn't
9. (p9) 6. What the Extra Calories Do to You
10. (p10) 7. What Can Be Done
11. (p11) Appendix: Fat Land Facts
12. (p12) Notes
13. (p13) Index

theme: Obesity

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

"Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factors 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 obesity in 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 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 the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose."--BOOK JACKET.

xxi, 232 p. : 21 cm
"A Mariner book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-222) and index
Up up up! (or, Where the calories came from) -- Supersize me (who got the calories into our bellies) -- World without boundaries (who let the calories in) -- Why the calories stayed on our bodies -- What fat is, what fat isn't -- What the extra calories do to you -- What can be done

2023-10-09