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...sweaty-browed, ruddy-cheeked fat kid who’s always picked last for the dodgeball team is the implicit protagonist of journalist Greg Critser??s Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, a cultural history of fat America released in paperback this January (Mariner Books 2004). What first started as a Harper’s Magazine cover story on obesity evolved into an insightful 200-page glimpse into a land of Super Mario Brothers, 7-11 Big Gulps and the expanding extra-large sweat pants sported by an increasing mass of dodgeball-hating...
...implying that eating disorders may not be a “real problem” when compared with obesity, Critser??s approach to the issue seems unsympathetic and harshly dismissive. He argues that fears of poor body image and anorexia have been sensationalized by the media and adopted by concerned parents, who Critser suggests might have been the last picked in dodgeball themselves. The bottom line for Critser is that the “anorexia argument” is one more way Americans condone obesity...
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