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Fat in the Fifties
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Nicolas Rasmussen
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-26 - Publisher: JHU Press

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A riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic during 1950s and 1960s America. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company identified obesity as the le
Fat in the Fifties
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Nicolas Rasmussen
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-26 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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A riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic during 1950s and 1960s America. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company identified obesity as the le
Fat City
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Leonard Gardner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-08 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stock
The Evolution of Obesity
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: Michael L. Power
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Draws on popular examples and sound science to explain our expanding waistlines and to discuss the consequences of being overweight for different demographic gr
The Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation, 2010
Language: en
Pages:
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Categories: Health behavior
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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In the 2001 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, former Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, warned of the negati