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Fat land

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

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

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America is suffering an epidemic of obesity and we are fast catching up. The challenge to the US food industry in the 1970s was that their population was growing more slowly than their food supply. The answer was supersized portions, fast food, too little exercise, take-aways, the constant drip-feed of saturated fat and sugar, producing a society in which 61 per cent of the population is overweight. Heart disease, cardiovascular problems, strokes and above all diabetes are the result.This is an ...Show more

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ISBN

9780713997392

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Fat land

Format

Paperback

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