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On the calorie side, Michael Fumento tells the dispiriting story in his recent book, The Fat of the Land (Viking, 1997).
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The last Stateside No. 1 from the United Kingdom was techno act Prodigy's "The Fat of the Land" in July 1997.
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One of Fat Land's main themes is the connection between agricultural policies that promoted an oversupply of fat and sugar and the rise of obesity.
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NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates explores the issues behind Americans' expanding waistline with Greg Critser, author of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World.
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Along with praise from across the political spectrum, Fat Land has also drawn its share of critics, from touchy international food companies to the nation's dour food police.
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I've always wanted to steal Abbie Hoffman's subversive exhortation to rebel, and the paperback publication of Fat Land seems a fitting occasion to do so.
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" cracked the headline of a newspaper opinion piece written by Fat Land author and journalist Greg Crister , whose book's promotional press release rails against "the ever-powerful corn lobby pushing its high-fructose corn syrup on manufacturers, who ignore the research explaining the dangers of how HFCS metabolizes.
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Founded in 1875, Toshiba grew fat during Japan's 1980s bubble years, when the economy boomed on the back of land speculation and consumer spending reached dizzy heights.
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