A pragmatic book that looks at societies as a whole are getting fat. Like other reviewers say here, I don't see a lot of new facts in here. He points out the usual suspects: food industry, fast food, sugar, and modern lifestyle.

Sorry, he didn't offers any silver bullet solutions but guess what? There probably isn't one. He can't be faulted for that.

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An advertisement from a publishing company about books in the food studies area came through our department a couple of weeks ago. I happened upon The World Is Fat from there. After all, I’ve enjoyed books like this in the past — maybe I’m a little masochistic and like to hear all about what we’re doing wrong. Remarkably, for a book that’s so short, Popkin manages to fit in quite a bit of repetition, and not even in an interesting way.

Full review: http://libwen.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/the-world-is-fat-by-barry-popkin/ ( )

This book started off strong. It was interesting, informative, and actually made me think. By the end, I found it a little repetitive and preachy. All in all, I wouldn't discourage someone from reading this book, but wouldn't go so far as to encourage someone to read it either. ( )