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Product Description: This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern. The United States of America currently has the highest rates of obesity among developed countries, with an alarming rise in prevalence in recent decades which promises to affect the nation for years to come...read more

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9781138927858 | Routledge, April 5, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

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9781138927865 | Routledge, April 6, 2016, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

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9781568589671 | Nation Books, December 24, 2013, cover price $26.99

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9781568584720 | Nation Books, January 6, 2015, cover price $15.99

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9781594631009 | 1 edition (Hudson st Pr, December 27, 2012), cover price $25.95

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9780142180433 | Reprint edition (Plume, December 31, 2013), cover price $16.00

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9781470807788 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 24, 2012), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: People today work harder and take better care of their health than any previous generation. So how could two-thirds of us fail to measure up when it comes to eating right and exercising? HBO and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences have joined together to bring you the nation's foremost experts and definitive research on weight and weight loss...read more

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9781250014733 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, April 24, 2012), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: People today work harder and take better care of their health than any previous generation.

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Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Foreword by Kelly D. Brownell, PhD] [Afterword by Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD] The weight of the nation is out of control. We're fat and getting fatter. When more than two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese, there's no denying we have a serious problem...read more

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9781470807771 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 24, 2012), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.

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Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Foreword by Kelly D. Brownell, PhD] [Afterword by Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD][Read by Bernadette Dunne] The weight of the nation is out of control. We're fat and getting fatter...read more

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9781470807795 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 24, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.

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9781608321155 | 1 upd rev edition (Greenleaf Book Group Llc, March 1, 2011), cover price $16.95
9781569803325 | Barricade Books Inc, August 1, 2007, cover price $16.95

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9781605294575 | Reprint edition (Rodale Pr, September 14, 2010), cover price $16.99

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9780743596794 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 28, 2009), cover price $29.99

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By Lauri S. Friedman (editor)

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9780737747331 | Greenhaven Pr, June 30, 2010, cover price $38.45

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Product Description: This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles...read more

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9780230537408 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society.

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9781601520401 | Referencepoint Pr Inc, January 15, 2008, cover price $28.95

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Presents an evolutionary and scientific perspective on the current obesity epidemic and fitness craze, likening modern lifestyles to the challenges of the jungle where the human body was programmed to forage the foods it now craves, in a guide that recommends radical dietary changes in order to break food addiction and reprogram the body's natural appetites.

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9780393062168 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents an evolutionary and scientific perspective on the current obesity epidemic and fitness craze, in a guide that recommends radical dietary changes in order to break food addiction and reprogram the body's natural appetites.

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Product Description: Eight Simple Rules explores the economic, psychological, and biological forces that work together to make Americans the most obese people in the world. The authors take a personal approach to addressing these problems and provide readers with ways to overcome obesity...read more

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9780976637226 | Sterling & Ross Pub Inc, April 30, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Eight Simple Rules explores the economic, psychological, and biological forces that work together to make Americans the most obese people in the world.

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Product Description: It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese...read more

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9780195169362 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 14, 2005, cover price $28.00

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9780195313208 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 14, 2006, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America.

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An expert in the prevention and treatment of diabetes discusses the soaring epidemic of type 2 diabetes that is affecting American society, explaining how excess weight destroys the body's ability to process sugar properly and its dangerous implications, and offers an innovative series of changes on every level of society that can help alleviate the problem. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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9780553383799 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 31, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An expert in the prevention and treatment of diabetes discusses the soaring epidemic of type 2 diabetes that is affecting American society, explaining how excess weight destroys the body's ability to process sugar properly and its dangerous implications, and offers an innovative series of changes on every level of society that can help alleviate the problem.

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Offers recent statistics on the extent and consequences of obesity in modern America and provides a broad survey of the medical and social problems related to obesity.

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9780531167564 | Franklin Watts, September 30, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Offers recent statistics on the extent and consequences of obesity in modern America and provides a broad survey of the medical and social problems related to obesity.

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An expert in the prevention and treatment of diabetes discusses the soaring epidemic of type 2 diabetes that is affecting American society, explaining how excess weight destroys the body's ability to process sugar properly and its dangerous implications, and offers an innovative series of changes on every level of society that can help alleviate the problem. 60,000 first printing.

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9780553803846 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, March 1, 2005, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Discusses the epidemic of type 2 diabetes that is affecting American society, explaining how excess weight destroys the body's ability to process sugar properly and its dangerous implications.

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