Rants Raves. FAT POLITICS: THE REAL STORY BEHIND AMERICA'S OBESITY EPIDEMIC, BY J. ERIC OLIVER By Lynne Murray. In , armed with a proposal and book contract from Oxford University Press, political scientist, J. Eric Oliver started out to write a book to address the question: "How was America going to overcome the political challenges posed by the obesity epidemic?". In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industries, have campaigned to create standards that mislead the public. They mislabel more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," inflate the health risks of being fat, and promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. a much greater role in causing obesity than do improper diet and lack of exercise. A must read for anyone that seeks to lose weight. Fat Politics - J. Eric Oliver - It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells.
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The book, pages of text, 30 pages of Notes, is an overblown journal article in need of a good editor. The book is not without merits and I don't disagree with Oliver's premise that calling obesity an "epidemic" is good for business, in this case the business of Fat America. In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industries, have campaigned to create standards that mislead the public. They mislabel more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," inflate the health risks of being fat, and promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In Fat Politics, Eric Oliver unearths the real story behind America's "obesity epidemic." Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industry, have campaigned to misclassify more than sixty.
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