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Edition: 2012
Release: 2011-09-30
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 3642201342
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Heavy! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free - And the Home of the Fat pdf
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America’s emerging “fat war” threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim Americans against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over “fat taxes” and “fat bans.” These “fat policies” would be designed to constrain what people eat and drink – and theoretically crimp the growth in Americans’ waistlines and in the country’s healthcare costs. Richard McKenzie’s HEAVY! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free—And the Home of the Fat offers new insight into the economic causes and consequences of America's dramatic weight gain over the past half century. It also uncovers the follies of seeking to remedy the country’s weight problems with government intrusions into people’s excess eating, arguing that controlling people’s eating habits is fundamentally different from controlling people’s smoking habits. McKenzie controversially links America’s weight gain to a variety of causes: the growth in world Download Heavy! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free - And the Home of the Fat for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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