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Fat Land. How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. (Taschenbuch)

von Greg Critser (Autor) "EARL BUTZ, nominated by Richard Nixon in 1971 to be the eighteenth secretary of agriculture, conjured the airs of a courtly midwestern grandfather, the kind..." (mehr)

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Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK); Auflage: New Ed (24. Juni 2004)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0141015403
ISBN-13: 978-0141015408
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,2 x 12,8 x 2 cm

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You reap what you sow. According to Critser, a leading journalist on health and obesity, America about 30 years ago went crazy sowing corn. Determined to satisfy an American public that "wanted what it wanted when it wanted it," agriculture secretary Earl Butz determined to lower American food prices by ending restrictions on trade and growing. The superabundance of cheap corn that resulted inspired Japanese scientists to invent a cheap sweetener called "high fructose corn syrup." This sweetener made food look and taste so great that it soon found its way into everything from bread to soda pop. Researchers ignored the way the stuff seemed to trigger fat storage. In his illuminating first book (which began life as a cover story for Harper's Magazine), Critser details what happened as this river of corn syrup (and cheap, lardlike palm oil) met with a fast-food marketing strategy that prized sales-via supersized "value" meals-over quality or conscience. The surgeon general has declared obesity an epidemic. About 61% of Americans are now overweight-20% of us are obese. Type 2 (i.e., fat-related) diabetes is exploding, even among children. Critser vividly describes the physical suffering that comes from being fat. He shows how the poor become the fattest, victimized above all by the lack of awareness. Critser's book is a good first step in rectifying that. In vivid prose conveying the urgency of the situation, with just the right amount of detail for general readers, Critser tells a story that they won't be able to shake when they pass the soda pop aisle in the supermarket. This book should attract a wide readership.
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Childhood obesity, diabetes, and related illnesses are becoming major health problems in America. Nutrition journalist Critser presents a critical analysis of the many social and economic factors that make Americans, contrary to the book's subtitle, the second-fattest people in the world (the South Sea Islanders are fatter). He blames parents' reluctance to monitor their children's eating habits; the marketing tactics of fast-food companies, which influence us to overeat; the preponderance of fad diets; the phasing out of physical education programs in schools; and the sale of fast foods at schools to save money on dining facilities. Lower-income families have higher rates of obesity regardless of race, ethnicity, and gender, which the author attributes to lack of information about diet and exercise and the wide diversity of cultural beliefs about weight, body size, and self-esteem. Critser urges Americans to tackle obesity head on, concluding with descriptions of initiatives that worked when communities launched a cooperative effort to change their eating habits and avoid the path to lifelong obesity. An important work that belongs in all nutrition and public health collections. [See also Robert Pool's excellent Fat: Fighting the Obesity Epidemic and Eric Schlosser's scathing Fast Food Nation.-Ed.]-Irwin Weintraub, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., New Yor.
--Irwin Weintraub, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., New York
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EARL BUTZ, nominated by Richard Nixon in 1971 to be the eighteenth secretary of agriculture, conjured the airs of a courtly midwestern grandfather, the kind who liked to show up at Sunday dinner, give the blessing, lecture the grandchildren about patriotism, free trade, the goodness of farm life, and the evils that threatened such a life - and then go out to the backyard and tell off-color jokes to the assembled adults. Lesen Sie die erste Seite

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Dieses Buch hat den merkw�rdigen Effekt, Hei�hunger auf Fritten zu verursachen. Eigentlich sollten sie einem im Halse stecken bleiben: In der letzten zwanzig Jahren ist die Zahl krankhaft fettleibiger Menschen in den USA sprunghaft gestiegen. Der Autor untersucht, wie es dazu kommen konnte - wo die Kalorien herkommen, wie sie in unsere K�rper gelangten, warum sie dort bleiben, was sie dort anrichten, und was man dagegen tun kann. Das Buch st�tzt sich auf zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse aus der ganzen Welt, die unterhaltsam und f�r den Laien verst�ndlich ausgewertet werden. Die Botschaft ist einfach: Vermeidet Fett und Zucker, verzichtet auf Snacks, bewegt euch, und schnallt den G�rtel enger. Das klingt bekannt, aber da auch hierzulande die Zahl der Dicken, vor allem der dicken Kinder steigt, sollte man die Notbremse ziehen, solange noch Zeit dazu ist.

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Mr Critser starts his study by explaining that palm oil was introduced in the US in the 1970s, cheaper and tastier than vegetable oil but containing 45 % saturated fat. At the same time, soft drink companies switched to high-fructose syrup saving the companies 20 % in sweetener costs and allowing the production of calorie-dense convenience food, the so-called "TV dinners". Still at the same time, meat production soared world-wide as feed costs of soy meal and corn fell. And so at fast food stands, portions became bigger and cheaper. "Value meals" became popular and the presence of more food for the same amount of money induced people to eat more. By the end of the 20th century, supersizing reigned in the fast food world. Another factor responsible for the rise of obesity is the habit of consuming high-calorie snacks between meals, particularly in schools where most cafeterias stopped cooking proper meals anyway in the favour of "outsourcing" - contracting an outside source to deliver pre-plated meals. The author then shows how obesity is associated with high levels of religiosity and how obesity is made to a cult on TV with some popular singers revering their own overweight body in their lyrics.
Other factors contribute to obesity: lack of physical education in schools, disproportionate TV-viewing (where up to 40% of children advertising is for high-fat foods) which can lead children to develop type 2 diabetes, particularly among the working poor who have the "impulse to eat for today, tomorrow being a tentative proposition at best". Poverty, class and income are thus the key determinants of obesity. A report from the RAND/University of Chicago states that "The economic and personal health costs of overweight and obesity are enormous and compromise the health of the United States."
Finally, in the last chapter the author suggests a series of measures to improve the current situation. An altogether well-researched and valuable study which tackles various issues: social, medical, economic, educational, cultural and culinary.

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