Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It (ALL OTHER HEALTH)

by Katherine Battle Horgen (Author), Kelly Brownell (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2004

  $26.23

  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. - Publishers Weekly . Brownell and Horgen uncover some of America's biggest diet hazards and how to avoid them. - Self magazine. This is a fascinating, empowering must-read filled with practical ways to take action. - Shape magazine. Food Fight is ...an important contribution to the discourse around the obesity epidemic. I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about the role of the food industry, and especially to public health advocates looking for clearly presented research and ideas for positive change. - Michele Simon, founder and director of the Center for Informed Food Choices.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $4.20

  This text describes the deeply entrenched biological and cultural forces that lead Americans to over-eat and become physically inactive, and outlines creative, innovative and controversial solutions to the problem. The book has three main themes: an expose of a culture that feeds its pets better than its people, that targets poorer people as a market for high-calorie, low-nutrient junk food, and that allows children to be manipulated into eating poor diets through toy giveaways and in-school promotions; a call to action for social and policy change; and a workable plan to improve individual health and that of one's family with recommendations and controversial stances.