The Obesity Culture

In their new book, “The Obesity Culture: Strategies for Change, Public Health and University-Community Partnerships,” Francis Johnston, the emeritus professor of anthropology at Penn, and Ira Harkavy, director of Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships, say that the massive increase of obesity in America over the last 100 years, and the attempts to control it, is the “greatest public health failure of the past century.”

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