Childhood obesity in America: biography of an epidemic

Introduction

Part 1. Measurement and Diagnosis

1. How Big Is Normal?

Quantifying Children's Body Size

2. Measuring Up

Height-Weight Standards and Diagnosis

3. Sugar, Spice, Frogs, Snails

The Composition of the Fat Child

4. Insides Made Easy

Measuring and Diagnosing Obesity Using Body Composition

Part 2. Causes and Treatments

5. Something Wrong Inside

Childhood Obesity as a Biological Fault, and the Hope for a Drug Treatment

6. The Enduring Promise

The Continued Search for a Pharmaceutical Remedy

7. Feeling Fat

Emotions and Family as Factors in Childhood Obesity

8. Kalorie Kids

Energy Balance and the Turn to Child Responsibility

9. Summer Slimming

Fat Camps as a Diet-and-Exercise Obesity Treatment

Part 3. Epidemic

10. Bigger Bodies in a Broken World

Television and the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

11. Fat Kids Go to Court

Legal Action as Public Health Response to Childhood Obesity

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index