Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

What About the Diet Industry?:

Do any of these people live in California?!! Is this being done in some Mc Donalds heavy midwestern back water? Because this is not my reality! I literally cannot turn on the t.v. without hearing about how fat Americans are intercut by endless lengthly ads for designer drugs for weight control (if not others ethereally and cheerfully explaining why ritalin is such an uplifiting and caring solution for grade schoolers!), Jenny Craig, "Carb Options" what have you. If we have learned anything in the 80s and... more info

Passionate Crusader, Excellent Book:

Dr. Kelly Brownell has spent much of his career fighting the food industry's attempts to make us all fat. He brings a crusader's passion and a scientist's accuracy and thoroughness to "Food Fight". He and co-author Katherine Horgen see obesity as a public health crisis like smoking or drunk driving. They take the social movement against smoking as a model and call on us all to get involved, for our own sake and our children's.

This book is extremely well-referenced, drawing on scientific articles, popular... more info

Bite-Sized Solutions to a Big Problem:

After reading the first few chapters of Food Fight, I thought "same old stuff." Americans are too fat, eat a poor diet, don't get enough exercise, what else is new.

After a few more chapters, I became overwhelmed with the magnitude of the problem. The fast food companies and agribusiness corporations are too powerful, health care organizations are not really interested in solving the problem, and even the schools are inundated with Channel One advertising and contracts from soft drink companies. How on... more info

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