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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Meticulously researched, smartly written:

"Fatland" is a meticulously researched, smartly written, frequently appalling screed of an explanation why Americans indeed are now the fattest people in the world. Greg Critser traces the history of today's obesity epidemic all the way back to Earl Butz, President Nixon's secretary of agriculture, whose free trade farming policies led to domestic corn surpluses (and thus a market push for high-fructose corn syrup, the unctious main ingredient in all those 32-ounce sodas) and cheap imported palm oil, a fat... more info

Is Gluttony Still a Sin?:

Here Greg Critser lays out the appalling and well-known statistics on obesity in America. In recent years the numbers of overweight people have ballooned alarmingly, along with all of the associated health problems. These horrific increases are not natural and also cannot be explained easily. Critser, formerly overweight himself, makes many keen observations in this book about the several different causes of the American fat epidemic. There are economic causes, such as the increased use of cheaper but more... more info

Less Filling:

A worthwhile topic, disappointingly rendered, especially if you've read "Fast Food Nation".

Critser goes into useful levels of detail on tantalizingly few topics. Too many of his other points are supported only anecdotally, or worse, because-he-said-so.

He does make at least a few points excellently: the blistering critique of our feel-good fat-positive self-esteem etiquette nonsense, that prevents us from warning our friends and ourselves when we are literally gorging ourselves to death, was right on... more info

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