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"Fat" weighs in on past and ongoing efforts to fight an accelerating epidemic in this engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Pool chronicles the evolving blame-game for fat, from being a result of undisciplined behavior to subconscious conflicts, physiological disease, and environmental excess. 20 illustrations.
Fat is the engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Covering the entire twentieth century, Robert Pool chronicles our evolving evolving understanding of obesity--from being a result of undisciplined behavior
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"Fat" weighs in on past and ongoing efforts to fight an accelerating epidemic in this engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Pool chronicles the evolving blame-game for fat, from being a result of undisciplined behavior to subconscious conflicts, physiological disease, and environmental excess. 20 illustrations.
Fat is the engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Covering the entire twentieth century, Robert Pool chronicles our evolving evolving understanding of obesity--from being a result of undisciplined behavior to subconscious conflicts, physiological disease, and environmental excess. Pool effectively reanimates the colorful characters, curious experiments, brilliant insights and wrong turns that led to contemporary scientific understanding of America's epidemic.
Autorenporträt
Robert Pool is a freelance science writer who has worked on the staff of Science and Nature. He is also the author of Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology and Eve's Rib: Searching for the Biological Roots of Sex Differences. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.