Greg Critser

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
You might want to think twice about super sizing that value meal. Recent studies have shown that 61 percent of Americans are overweight and 26 percent are obese. Greg Critser examines the social and economic factors that have led to America’s struggle with obesity. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. Read an excerpt of Critser's book in the Reading Room.

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