Fat: fighting the obesity epidemic

The author of Eve's Rib takes a close up look at scientific efforts to understand and control human obesity, examining the pharmaceutical and weight control programs available, the history of obesity research, and the science of body weight, and arguing that the real problem with obesity is not...

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Main Author: Pool, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2001
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Summary:The author of Eve's Rib takes a close up look at scientific efforts to understand and control human obesity, examining the pharmaceutical and weight control programs available, the history of obesity research, and the science of body weight, and arguing that the real problem with obesity is not losing the weight but keeping it off.
Physical Description:X, 292 S. Ill.
ISBN:0195118537

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