Fat in the fifties : America's first obesity crisis /

Fat in the Fifties is required reading for public health practitioners and researchers, physicians, historians of medicine, and anyone concerned about weight and weight loss.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Fat and the public health before the second World War
  • Obesity becomes a mental disorder
  • The postwar heart alarm : new attention to an old hazard
  • Fighting heart disease one calorie at a time in cold war suburbia
  • The new epidemiology and its impact
  • The disappearance of obesity as a public health problem.