NYT Book Review: Fat Land

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Land of the Free, Home of the Fat

" More die in the United States of too much food than of too little, " wrote

John Kenneth Galbraith in " The Affluent Society. "

That was back in 1958, and since then Americans have just gotten fatter and

fatter, to the point where obesity-related health services are costing the

nation an estimated $100 billion a year. We've become a country that wears

" easy fit " and " baggy fit " jeans, that devours super-sized tubs of popcorn

and huge vats of soda at the movies, that buys pizza by the foot at Little

Caesar's and " neverending pasta " at the Olive Garden.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/07/books/07KAKU.html?tntemail0