Obesity Modern-Day Epidemic: America's Unhealthy Lifestyle Supersize It!Obesity obesity, condition resulting from excessive storage of fat in the body. Obesity has been defined as a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal according to standard age, height, and weight tables, or by a complex formula known as the body mass index. Modern-Day Epidemic epidemic, outbreak of disease that affects a much greater number of people than is usual for the locality or that spreads to regions where it is ordinarily not present. : America's Unhealthy Lifestyle unhealthy lifestyle Public health A dissipated personal modus operandum, which may be characterized by one or more of the following: substance abuse–eg, alcohol, drug and/or tobacco use, debauchery, sexual promiscuity and/or teenage pregnancy, poor sleep Supersize supersize or supersized Adjective larger than standard size Verb [-sizes, -sizing, -sized] to increase the size of (something, such as a standard portion of food) It! Ellyn Sanna Mason Crest 370 Reed Rd. Suite 302, Broomall, PA 19008 1590849426 $23.95 www.masoncrest.com A little over a hundred pages in Obesity Modern-Day Epidemic: America's Unhealthy Lifestyle Supersize It! tells not only the changing history of American diet, but how everything from evolution to advertising have been working to encourage weight gain and unhealthy lifestyles. Chapters survey social and health issues alike and provide many basic insights into nutrition and proper eating habits. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion