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More than one third of adults in the United States are obese. The CDC estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for years now, the government has waged a very public war on the problem. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona warned in 2006 that obesity is the terror within, going so far as to call it a threat that will dwarf 9/11. Health care reform, prevention and wellness grants, information requirements for menus, Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign it seems like every year brings a new initiative attempting to stem the tide of obesity in the United States. What doesn't get mentioned in all this? The fact that the federal government helped create the obesity crisis in the first place especially in one place where it is acute, among urban African American communities. With Supersizing Urban America, Chin Jou tells that little-known story of how the US government got into the business of encouraging fast food in inner cities, with unforeseen conseque

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9780226921921, 978-0226921921
      ISBN10: 0226921921
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      History of the Americas

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      Book Synopsis
      More than one third of adults in the United States are obese. The CDC estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for years now, the government has waged a very public war on the problem. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona warned in 2006 that obesity is the terror within, going so far as to call it a threat that will dwarf 9/11. Health care reform, prevention and wellness grants, information requirements for menus, Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign it seems like every year brings a new initiative attempting to stem the tide of obesity in the United States. What doesn't get mentioned in all this? The fact that the federal government helped create the obesity crisis in the first place especially in one place where it is acute, among urban African American communities. With Supersizing Urban America, Chin Jou tells that little-known story of how the US government got into the business of encouraging fast food in inner cities, with unforeseen conseque

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