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Gordon, Aubrey Harrison, Da'Shaun Kessler, David A. Lustig, Robert H. Thomas, William G.Summary: "CONSEQUENCES examines the scope of the obesity epidemic and explores the serious health consequences of being overweight or obese. CHOICES offers viewers the skinny on fat, revealing what science has shown about how to lose weight, maintain weight loss and prevent weight gain. CHILDREN IN CRISIS documents the damage obesity is doing to our nation's children. Through individual stories, this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEISummary: Narrated by Katie Couric, the film blows the lid off everything that was known about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public. Exposing the hidden truths contributing to one of the largest health epidemics in history, it follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives and reveals...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FED1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FED
Kessler, David A.
Summary: Argues that the combination of sugars, fats, and salts "hijacks" the human body's eating habits, creating a dangerous cycle of overeating, and promotes healthy eating habits and methods to avoid overeating.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613 KESSummary: Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want people to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat, and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all good intentions, they go on getting fatter and fatter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC FaSummary: Spurlocks social experiment in fast food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from McDonald's menu for an entire month. He also examines the corporate giant's role in contributing to America's obesity epidemic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2004
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Kessler, David A.
Summary: "Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food? Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 613.2 KESLustig, Robert H.
Summary: "Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1963 LUSKessler, David A.
Summary: This book explains for the first time why it is exceptionally difficult to resist certain foods and why it's so easy to overindulge. Dr. Kessler"s cutting-edge investigation offers new insights and helpful tools to help us find a solution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 KESSummary: In an effort to address the obesity epidemic, in the USA 20 states mandate that students their body mass index (BMI) tested in order to gauge the student population's "health," even though BMI does not distinguish between muscle weight and fat weight. Notification letters are being sent to students whose body mass do not fall within a narrow range deemed "acceptable" by the state government,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STUGordon, Aubrey
Summary: "The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 GORSummary: "America's battle against childhood obesity is an issue too big for many to fully comprehend. With one in three children overweight, the epidemic is sweeping our nation at an unforgiving rate. But in spite of these odds, Bite size showcases the stories of four inspiring kids from diverse backgrounds who are fighting for their health one day at a time. Proving that it's not just about the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BITSummary: With 33 percent of adults and 17 percent of children obese, the United States is facing an obesity epidemic. Obesity increases risk for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other maladies and costs the U.S. health care system nearly
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Gordon, Aubrey
Summary: "From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment on the systemic and cultural issues facing plus-sized people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 GORHarrison, Da'Shaun
Summary: "An exploration of anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender identity, fatness, and health"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.38 HARThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020