num_pages: 229
description: An evaluation of the growing rates of overweight humans in the modern world contends that obesity is occurring as a result of an unprecedented collision of human biology with trends in technology, globalization, and the food industry, in an account that compares today's lifestyles with those of fifty years ago to identify key influences.
language: English
title: The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fatteningthe Human Race
publisher: Avery