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

CRITSER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618380604 ISBN 13: 9780618380602

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2004

Synopsis

Today Americans are the fattest people on the face of the earth (save for the inhabitants of a few South Seas islands). About 61 percent of Americans are overweight. This book shows how and why Americans got that way.

About this title

Review:

"Reading this book will take ten pounds right off you."

About the Author:

GREG CRITSER is a longtime chronicler of the modern pharmaceutical industry and the politics of medicine. His columns and essays on the subject have appeared in Harper's Magazine, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the L.A. Times, and elsewhere. Critser is the author of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (Houghton Mifflin), which the American Diabetes Association called "the definitive journalistic account of the modern obesity epidemic." He lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife, Antoinette Mongelli.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0618380604
• ISBN 13: 9780618380602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256