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Author:
Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962- author.
Title:
Fat in the fifties : America's first obesity crisis / Nicolas Rasmussen.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
viii, 188 pages illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Obesity--history.
History, 20th Century.
United States.
Obesity--United States--History--20th century.
Obesity.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Fat and the public health before the second World War -- Obesity becomes a mental disorder -- The postwar heart alarm : new attention to an old hazard -- Fighting heart disease one calorie at a time in cold war suburbia -- The new epidemiology and its impact -- The disappearance of obesity as a public health problem.
ISBN:
1421428717
9781421428710
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1045086071
LCCN:
2018033818
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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