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yours?   Greg Critser, author of Fat Land: How Americans Became
the Fattest People in the World  What has been the reaction in
the UK to the book? Do people see the same problems here that
they see in America?  The reaction to the book has been
extremely positive. The reviews that have appeared so far, by
some fairly trenchant critics, have been very positive, so I was
encouraged by that, of course. As far as the basic thesis and
the concern that the same epidemiology might prevail, clearly
that's on the minds of a lot of British medical authorities,
public health people, education people. So, what's happened with
the book is that it's come at exactly the right time to bring a
unified theory, if you will, to why people in Western cultures
are becoming obese and particularly, it seems, in Anglo-Saxon
cultures.  You call obesity a 'public health emergency'. Why do
you think it is so important?  I don't think I've ever said the
word emergency. It's a ch