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Title:

How to get fat without really trying [videorecording] / ABC News Productions ; PJ Productions ; producer, Keith Summa ; writers, Peter Jennings, Keith Summa.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

ABC News Productions,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

1 videodisc (43 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Obesity--United States.
Food industry and trade--United States.
Agricultural subsidies--United States.
Television advertising and children--United States.
Documentary television programs.

Other Authors:

Jennings, Peter, 1938-2005.
Summa, Keith.
Thompson, Tommy George, 1941-
ABC News.
ABC News Productions.
PJ Productions.
American Broadcasting Company.

Other Titles:

Peter Jennings reporting (Television program)

Notes:

Host, Peter Jennings ; guests include, Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, Jim Tillotson, Marion Nestle, Michael Jacobson, and Chip Kunde. Originally broadcast as an ABC News special, December 8, 2003.

Summary:

In this ABC News special, Peter Jennings reveals how government policies and food industry practices are helping to make Americans fat. Mr. Jennings' report begins in the farmlands of America and includes government agencies and representatives from the food industry. He examines how the the type of government subsidies provided to farmers influences which foods are marketed or emphasized as part of healthy eating standards.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)84384363

Locations:

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)