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Life in the Fat Lane has received many positive reviews by Publishers Weekly, Amazon Books, and Good Reads. Publishers Weekly said, "Reading this often artificial novel for insight into [issues of weight, self-image and beauty] is a little like eating peanut M&M's for the protein , but it's a similarly addictive experience". [ 10 ]
Rates of overweight among children 2 to 19 years in the USA. From 1980 to 2013, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children increased by nearly 50%. [102] Currently 10% of children worldwide are either overweight or obese. [2] In 2014, the World Health Organization established a high-level commission to end childhood obesity. [103]
WHO parameters for BMI-for-age parameters are defined by standard deviations and describe overweight to be greater than +1standard deviation from the mean (equivalent to BMI=25 kg/m2 at 19 years) and obese as +2 standard deviations from the mean for 5 to 19 year-olds (equivalent to BMI=30 kg/m2 at 19 years). [7]
About 40 years ago, Americans started getting much larger. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 80 percent of adults and about one-third of children now meet the clinical definition of overweight or obese. More Americans live with “extreme obesity“ than with breast cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and HIV ...
Childhood obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 96th percentile for children of the same age and sex. It can cause a variety of health problems, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, breathing problems, sleeping problems, and joint problems later in life. [1]
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World is a 2003 non-fiction book by Greg Critser describing how 60% of Americans came to be overweight and exploring the relationship between the relentless rise of fast food corporations and increasing sizes in the American diet, along with misguided government policies and poor nutritional education in schools.
It is also one of fifty books on Young Adult Library Services Association's The Ultimate Teen Bookshelf. [2] From the back of the 2003 Harper Teen edition: [3] Sarah Byrnes and Eric have been friends for years. When they were children, his fat and her terrible scars made them both outcasts.