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9781250014733 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, April 24, 2012), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: People today work harder and take better care of their health than any previous generation.
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9781608321155 | 1 upd rev edition (Greenleaf Book Group Llc, March 1, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The epidemics of obesity, disease, low IQ, and depression are the result of a new source of malnutrition caused by chemically loaded, nutrient dead ''science fiction'' food made in factories.
9781569803325 | Barricade Books Inc, August 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Although Americans worship youth and beauty, we are aging rapidly.
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9781605294575 | Reprint edition (Rodale Pr, September 14, 2010), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Dr.
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9780743596794 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 28, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food -- when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag.
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9780737747331 | Greenhaven Pr, June 30, 2010, cover price $36.80
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Product Description: This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the globesity pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought childrens food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles...read more
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9780230537408 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2011, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society.
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9781410420121 | 1 lrg edition (Thorndike Pr, October 16, 2009), cover price $32.95
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9781605297859 | 1 edition (Rodale Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag.
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9781601520401 | Referencepoint Pr Inc, January 15, 2008, cover price $27.95
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9780393062168 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents an evolutionary and scientific perspective on the current obesity epidemic and fitness craze, in a guide that recommends radical dietary changes in order to break food addiction and reprogram the body's natural appetites.
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9780976637226 | Sterling & Ross Pub Inc, April 30, 2008, cover price $14.95
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9780195169362 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 14, 2005, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Our government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis, that sixty percent of Americans are "overweight," and that one in four is obese.
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9780195313208 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 14, 2006, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America.
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9780865693302 | Praeger Pub Text, May 30, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise.
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9780553383799 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 31, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An expert in the prevention and treatment of diabetes discusses the soaring epidemic of type 2 diabetes that is affecting American society, explaining how excess weight destroys the body's ability to process sugar properly and its dangerous implications, and offers an innovative series of changes on every level of society that can help alleviate the problem.
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9780531167564 | Franklin Watts, September 30, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Offers recent statistics on the extent and consequences of obesity in modern America and provides a broad survey of the medical and social problems related to obesity.
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9780553803846 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, March 1, 2005, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Discusses the epidemic of type 2 diabetes that is affecting American society, explaining how excess weight destroys the body's ability to process sugar properly and its dangerous implications.
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9780071402507 | Contemporary Books, August 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Advance Praise for Food Fight "This is a fascinating, empowering book must-read filled with practical ways to take action" -- Shape Magazine “Food Fight is a blueprint for the nation taking action on the obesity crisis.
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9780071438728 | McGraw-Hill, September 26, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "The evergreen subject of American gluttony and sloth brings out the best in scientist-advocates, and the authors, while drawing on a mountain of statistics and studies, make their indictment both funny and appalling.
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A provocative exposé of America's self-defeating war on obesity challenges conventional wisdom regarding the cultural, medical, and political meaning of weight, arguing against the myth that falsely equates thinness with health and explaining why dieting is bad for the health, how the media misinform the public, and the link between racial and body-based prejudice. 35,000 first printing.
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9781592400669 | Gotham Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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 the health and how the media misinform the public.
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9780618164721 | Houghton Mifflin, January 14, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Takes a close-up look at the social, political, cultural, economic, and nutritional factors that have made Americans the victims of an epidemic of obesity.
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9780618380602 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 5, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Takes a close-up look at the social, political, cultural, economic, and nutritional factors that have made Americans the victims of an epidemic of obesity.
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9780670870592 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Examining the roots of the American obesity crisis, a guide for dieters examines the roles of alcohol, television, serving sizes, diet hype, the sugar industry, and using food as entertainment in keeping people overweight
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9780140261448 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1998), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Examining the roots of the American obesity crisis, a guide for dieters examines the roles of alcohol, television, serving sizes, diet hype, the sugar industry, and using food as entertainment in keeping people overweight
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