Title Fat in the fifties : America's first obesity crisis / Nicolas Rasmussen.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 188 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (153-184 pages) 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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Obesity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Obesity.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	United States.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Title	America's first obesity crisis
Other Form:	Print version: Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962- Fat in the fifties. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019] 9781421428710 (DLC) 2018033818 (OCoLC)1045086071
ISBN	9781421428727 (electronic book)
	1421428725 (electronic book)
	9781421428710
	1421428717