Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do

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

MGH | 2004 | ISBN: 0071438726 | 356 pages | PDF | 12 MB

The ~fare against obesity must go beyond personal responsibility and will power to compass a Gandhian mass movement against a food industry and a genial order intent on fattening us, argues this fact-filled but ruthl>ess manifesto. The authors, academics with the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, vie that our abundant, super-sized meals and our modern, sedentary lifestyles hold formed a "toxic environment" that indulges our genetic fat-storage proclivities to a pathological remove . The result is an "epidemic" of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and moderate self-esteem. Brownell and Horgen blame these side effects on a car-centric cultivation that has virtually criminalized walking (27% of adult Americans, they narrate, get "no physical activity at all") while parking kids in stand over against of television, video games and computers and eliminating gym classes from turn into money-strapped schools. But the worst villain of the book is the politically valid food industry, which, the authors say, plies us with cheap sluggish and sugar while keeping healthier foods scarce and expensive, bribes schools to sell children soft drinks, and bombards children with junk-food ads from the element they leave the womb. The authors recast the usual diet-and-put to the test discourse in the rhetoric of social justice, calling for a grass-roots mobilization to fight Big Food, a "national strategic plan," and specific measures like junk-nutrition taxes and banning ads that target children. Libertarians may consider this the master kind of victimology. But the evergreen subject of American gluttony and slowness brings out the best in scientist-advocates, and the authors, while drawing on a mountain of statistics and studies, make their crimination both funny and appalling.

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