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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Critser, Greg.
Fat land : how Americans became the fattest
people in the world / Greg Critser.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-618-16472-3
1. Obesity—United States. I. Title.
RA645.O23 C75 2003
362.1'96398'00973—dc21 2002032282
Printed in the United States of America
Book design by Robert Overholtzer
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