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...weren’t always this fat. The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports has focused on the prevention of sedentary lifestyles since 1956. Critser quotes John F. Kennedy, who expanded the council and likened promoting fitness to political strategy: “We do not want our children to become a nation of spectators. Rather, we want each of them to be a participant in the vigorous life...
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...