Fat

Fat PDF Author: Robert Pool
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195118537
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Book Description
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.