ISBN: 1590849434

Description: 104 pages, illustrations.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• The birth of a nation?
• Energy is the key: an introduction to calories
• Variety is the spice of life: getting your essential nutrients
• What you don't know will hurt you: what's really in fast food
• Big Mac nation going supersized
• Out of the television ...
• Fighting the fast food habit: can America downsize?
• Further reading
• For more information
• Glossary
• Index
• Biographies.

Control Number: 341156

Series:

• Obesity (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Obesity : modern-day epidemic

Subjects:

• Health -- Juvenile literature.
• Obesity -- Juvenile literature.
• Youth -- Nutrition -- Juvenile literature.