HEAVY! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free—And the Home of the Fat /

• Main Author: McKenzie, Richard B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Subjects: Science.; Business.; Management science.; Medicine.; Literacy.; Law.; Psychology.; Science, general.; Business and Management, general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Psychology, general.; Law, general.

In HEAVY! Professor McKenzie addresses ‘the coming fat (policy) war’ over proposed fat taxes and bans, making the case for heavy people bearing the full burden of their weight-related costs. America has become the heaviest country in the world. This book lays out the unheralded, mainly economic reas...