Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis by Nicolas Rasmussen

Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis

Nicolas Rasmussen

200 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company identified obesity as the leading cause of premature death in the United States in the 1930s, but it wasn't until 1951 that the public health and medical communities finally recognized it as "America's Number On...

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