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.

Author: Robert Pool
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/15/2001
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780195118537

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