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Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America’s Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do about It by Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen                                                                             It is difficult to single out what is most objectionable about this hectoring, lecturing, and altogether dejecting piece of work, but perhaps it’s the moment when its authors credit the rest of us with the IQs of greedy rodents Quoting s study that shows that, presented with a cornucopia of carbohydrates and wicked fatty treats, laboratory rats will abandon a balanced, healthy diet in favor of dangerous excess, they draw a rather insulting conclusion: [...]

The Fat Police

January 26, 2004

"Food Fight," by Kelly D. Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen.; published originally in National Review