Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world /

Critser, Greg.

Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world / Greg Critser. - 1st Mariner Books ed. - Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004, c2003. - xxi, 232 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"A Mariner book".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-222) and index.

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.

0618380604 (pbk.)

2004295243


Obesity--United States.

RA645.O23 / C75 2004

616.3/98/00973