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Language: en
Pages: 199
Pages: 199
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-26 - Publisher: JHU Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 199
Pages: 199
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-26 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Fat in the Fifties is required reading for public health practitioners and researchers, physicians, historians of medicine, and anyone concerned about weight an
Language: en
Pages: 209
Pages: 209
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-15 - Publisher: McFarland
This is a study of obesity in America from 1850 to 1939, concentrating on how the condition was viewed, studied, and treated. It examines the images and stereot
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:
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
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Penguin
An exploration of America's self-defeating war on obesity argues against the myth that falsely equates thinness with health and explains why dieting is bad for