Fat kids: truth and consequences

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Fat Kids: Truth and Consequences is an informational vault of deeply personal tales and essential information, focusing on the lives, questions, and concerns of parents and children living in a childhood obesity crisis. Unlike most books about weight, however, Fat Kids is not a dieting or weight loss how-to; it instead explores the true human experiences and often untold science outside the current political positioning on children and weight.This book powerfully combines interviews, relevant r…

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Full title :Fat kids : truth and consequences / by Rebecca Jane Weinstein.

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Publication Date:©2014
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Beaufort Books
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

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Description:1 online resource.

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ISBN:9780825306594, 0825306590
oclc:ocn879119546
LC Classification:RJ399.C6
Dewey Decimal:618.92/398

Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; Prologue: A Taste of Bitter; Who's the Fat Cow Now?; The Mamas; If I Were a Hat I Would Be a Sombrero; Fat Immunity; Fleshy and Bones; Mortal Combat; PART TWO; The Science of Fat; Between a Rock and a Defensive Tackle; Starved; Punishable by Death; Fat and Happy; Walking the Gauntlet; PART THREE; Collateral Damage in the "War on Obesity"; Measuring the Cake; Convex; Spilling Over the Sides; If at First You Don't Succeed, Give Up!; It's Not the Size That Matters; PART FOUR; Unintended Consequences Still Hurt; Unlikely Savior

Now, Grapevine!Fat Pants Forever; The Dynamic Duo; Digging Your Grave with Your Fork, and Other Things to Do for at Least Seven Decades; Epilogue: The Walrus Was Paul; ABOUT THE AUTHOR