ISBN: 9781597712002

Description: 44 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• What is obesity?
• A history of obesity
• The obesity epidemic
• The causes of obesity
• A question of genes
• Does modern life cause obesity?
• The health costs of obesity
• The economic costs of obesity
• The misery of obesity
• Food, glorious food!
• Fast food
• Food labelling
• Binge
• Chronic obesity
• Obesity in education
• Eat well, live well.

LCCN: 2008048177

Control Number: 1903413

Series:

• The world today
• World today.

Subjects:

• Food habits -- Juvenile literature.
• Obesity -- Juvenile literature.