Format:
1 online resource (217 pages)
ISBN:
9781538117750
Content:
The estimated annual health care cost of obesity-related illness in the United States is 190 billion, with countless more costs in lost mobility, vigor, and life-years. Here, Jonathan Engel reviews the sources of the problem as they have developed over the past 70 years and offers a realistic plan for helping address obesity.
Content:
Intro -- A History of Obesity in America -- Contents -- 1 An Old Problem -- 2 Whence Cometh Fat? -- 3 The Unwalkable Landscape -- 4 Changing Lives -- 5 Changing Food/Changing Meals -- 6 Addicted to Food -- 7 Finding the Off Switch -- 8 Exercise, Drugs, and Surgery -- 9 Self-Control -- 10 Disparate Impacts -- 11 What Is to Be Done? -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781538117743
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781538117743
Language:
English
