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Thus one is not born, but instead becomes, the easy dodgeball target. Though Critser devotes ample time to the hereditary factors of obesity, he offers more compelling insights into the hazardous environmental factors feeding the fat kid, which include the school cafeteria, the fast food restaurant and the American living room...
...America’s dodgeball targets. A serving of McDonald’s French fries, for example, has gone from 200 calories in 1960 to 610 calories today. Critser says that the Del Taco Macho meal weighs in at four pounds. Schools have indulged in opportunities to outsource cafeteria lunches to fast food giants, which in turn fill hungry students with several hundred more calories than a traditional school lunch. Two factors are at work—Americans’ obsessions with largeness and value. Even in a society of abundance, we still want more for less...
These six people are good at what they do. So are many other employees of Harvard, from deans to adjunct professors to medical staffs to police to cafeteria workers. The fund managers’ work is unique in that they deal with large amounts of money. So do employees in the office of Harvard’s vice president for finance, and they don’t get a slice of the sums that pass across their computer screens...
...untreated chemicals, and in one case, stealing government subsidized electricity intended for farmers. On top of that, recent tests have found traces of pesticide in Indian bottles of Coke. Indian Parliament has begun to investigate the source and the effects of the pesticides and has banned Coke from its cafeteria...
...beds, two desks and, for upperclassmen, desktop computers. The schedule is purposely intense. Each morning, after waking up at 5:45, the kids make their bed, get dressed in their uniform of khaki pants and white polo or Oxford shirt, then line up single file to go to the cafeteria for breakfast. Classes begin at 8 a.m. and last until 4 p.m. The late-afternoon hours are filled with extracurricular activities that range from choir to flag football. After dinner, the students go back to their dorms for an hour-long study hall before a half-hour of "quiet time...