Print version: Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962- Fat in the fifties : America’s first obesity crisis. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 199 pages ISBN 9781421428710
Includes bibliographical references and index
Fat and the public health before the second World War -- Obesity becomes a mental disorder -- The postwar heart alarm : new attention to an old hazard -- Fighting heart disease one calorie at a time in cold war suburbia -- The new epidemiology and its impact -- The disappearance of obesity as a public health problem.