Childhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic / Laura Dawes.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dawes, Laura, 1976-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Obesity in children > United States. Overweight children > United States. Nutrition policy > United States. Health promotion > United States > Planning.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Measurement and diagnosis : How big is normal?: quantifying children's body size ; Measuring up: height-weight standards and diagnosis ; Sugar, spice, frogs, snails: the composition of the fat child ; Insides made easy: measuring and diagnosing obesity using body composition
pt. 2. Causes and treatments : Something wrong inside: childhood obesity as a biological fault, and the hope for a drug treatment ; The enduring promise: the continued search for a pharmaceutical remedy ; Feeling fat: emotions and family as factors in childhood obesity ; Kalorie Kids: energy balance and the turn to child responsibility ; Summer slimming: fat camps as a diet-and-exercise obesity treatment
pt. 3. Epidemic : Bigger bodies in a broken world : television and the epidemic of childhood obesity ; Fat kids go to court: legal action as public health response to childhood obesity
Conclusion.

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