Obesity: A Reference Handbook

Obesity really is a “contemporary world issue”, and so fits in well with the title of this reference series. “Contemporary”, in the sense that it is a fairly recent phenomenon. My British generation was brought up in an era of food rationing, but even among older people or people from other countries, being fat used to be a noticeable enough exception to get you a nickname. “World”, in the sense that, like so many contemporary issues it seems to have started in America and then gradually spread to other developed countries. An “issue” it most definitely is. People with a...