- Introduction
- I. Measurement and Diagnosis
- 1. How Big Is Normal? Quantifying Children’s Body Size
- 2. Measuring Up: Height–Weight Standards and Diagnosis
- 3. Sugar, Spice, Frogs, Snails: The Composition of the Fat Child
- 4. Insides Made Easy: Measuring and Diagnosing Obesity Using Body Composition
- II. Causes and Treatments
- 5. Something Wrong Inside: Childhood Obesity as a Biological Fault, and the Hope for a Drug Treatment
- 6. The Enduring Promise: The Continued Search for a Pharmaceutical Remedy
- 7. Feeling Fat: Emotions and Family as Factors in Childhood Obesity
- 8. Kalorie Kids: Energy Balance and the Turn to Child Responsibility
- 9. Summer Slimming: Fat Camps as a Diet-and-Exercise Obesity Treatment
- III. Epidemic
- 10. Bigger Bodies in a Broken World: Television and the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity
- 11. Fat Kids Go to Court: Legal Action as Public Health Response to Childhood Obesity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Childhood Obesity in America
Biography of an Epidemic
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