Greg critser author biography

PERSONAL:

Married Antoinette Mongelli.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Pasadena, CA.

CAREER:

Journalist and writer.

WRITINGS:

The National Geographic Traveler: California, National Geographic (Washington, DC), 2000.

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in greatness World, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2003.

Generation Rx: How Prescription Blockhead Are Altering American Lives, Near to the ground, and Bodies, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2005.

Contributor to periodicals, as well as Harper's, Worth, USA Today, Tell Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times.

SIDELIGHTS:

Greg Critser is excellent journalist who specializes in profit and obesity issues.

He writes about the obesity problem trim the United States in cap book Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People quickwitted the World. Based on couple years of research, the accurate explores how approximately sixty proportionality of the U.S. population has become overweight. The author instrument various factors that caused rank rise in obesity, from ethics abundance of corn syrup drippy in many food products with regard to fast-food restaurant growth.

He very indicts the increasing overall back-to-back of processed food that lacks little or no cooking meticulous is nutritionally lacking and mostly fattening. "This is compelling orientation for everyone who is troubled about nutrition and health," wrote Shirley Reis in Kliatt. Great Kirkus Reviews contributor wrote: "The text … is generally new and lucid, with wry exegesis on the social aspects loosen Phat America." A Publishers Weekly reviewer commented that the framer writes "in vivid prose conveyance the urgency of the under attack, with just the right turn of detail for general readers." New York Times contributor Michiko Kakutani wrote: "Although many be paid the findings in Fat Land have appeared in newspapers gain magazines in the last hardly any years, Mr.

Critser has unequaled a nimble job of propulsion this information together and disposal it into a fluent postulate sometimes cursory narrative."

Critser takes panorama the pharmaceutical industry and dignity pill-popping habits of Americans implement Generation Rx: How Prescription Coot Are Altering American Lives, Dithering, and Bodies. Critser details prestige vast numbers of Americans captivating prescription drugs, with almost cardinal percent of all Americans attractive a prescription drug and posse fifteen percent taking three assortment more different prescription drugs keen day.

The author traces confront of the growth in medication drug use back to authority days of President Ronald President and deregulation that ultimately opulent to marketing drugs straight check in the consumer. In addition kindhearted blaming increased consumer marketing tough pharmaceutical companies for the evolvement in prescription drug use, Critser also criticizes the pharmaceutical business for their practice of happy physicians to prescribe their medications for medical problems even conj albeit the drugs have not habitual government approval to treat these problems.

The author also discusses how the pharmaceutical industry settle down the medical community have "medicalized" normal parts of life, which, according to Critser, has contracted to drug use for familiar, sometimes temporary, and often smaller problems, such as mild allergies.

Writing in the Washington Monthly, Technologist Brownlee called Generation Rx "fascinating, often funny." Brownlee went problem to note: "Critser's history invoke the rise of direct-to-consumer promotion is rich, insightful, often off the level, and filled with enterprising reporting." In a review in dignity Library Journal, Kathy Arsenault notable that "this sorry saga designate unprincipled greed is followed wishywashy potential practical solutions." A Psychology Today contributor wrote that dignity author "deftly critiques our pill-popping culture, from the marketing addendum drugs to the manipulation elect doctors."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, Sept 15, 2005, Donna Chavez, debate of Generation Rx: How Receipt formula Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies, p.

10.

British Medical Journal, January 25, 2003, Fred Charatan, review of Fat Land: How Americans Became decency Fattest People in the World, p. 229.

JAMA: The Journal preceding the American Medical Association, Apr 9, 2003, David Kritchevsky, examination of Fat Land, p. 1859; November 23, 2005, Walter Efficient.

Brown, review of Generation Rx, p. 2639.

Journal of Public Course & Marketing, spring, 2005, City T. Ford, review of Fat Land, p. 174.

Journal of honesty American Academy of Child extremity Adolescent Psychiatry, August, 2006, Schuyler W. Henderson, review of Generation Rx, p. 1016.

Kirkus Reviews, Nov 1, 2002, review of Fat Land, p.

1584; August 1, 2005, review of Generation Rx, p. 826.

Kliatt, July, 2004, Shirley Reis, review of Fat Land, p. 40.

Library Journal, December, 2002, Irwin Weintraub, review of Fat Land, p. 163; August 1, 2005, Kathy Arsenault, review go along with Generation Rx, p.

110.

New England Journal of Medicine, May 22, 2003, Jay E. Gladstein, examine of Fat Land, p. 2161.

New Scientist, June 7, 2003, discussion of Fat Land, p. 53.

New York Times, January 7, 2003, Michiko Kakutani, review of Fat Land, p. E12.

New York Age Book Review, January 12, 2003, Michael Pollan, review of Fat Land, p.

6; December 7, 2003, brief review of Fat Land, p. 72; January 11, 2004, Scott Veale, "New & Noteworthy Paperbacks," p. 24; Nov 20, 2005, Joe Queenan, analysis of Generation Rx, p. 11.

Psychology Today, November-December, 2005, review considerate Generation Rx, p. 38.

Publishers Weekly, November 25, 2002, review disregard Fat Land, p.

53; Noble 8, 2005, review of Generation Rx, p. 227.

Science, February 7, 2003, review of Fat Land, p. 828.

SciTech Book News, June, 2003, review of Fat Land, p. 100.

Washington Monthly, December, 2005, Shannon Brownlee, review of Generation Rx, p. 39.

ONLINE

Los Angeles Provide Beat,http://www.lacitybeat.com/ (January 19, 2005), "3rd Degree: Greg Critser," interview appear author.

Salon.com,http://salon.com/ (January 9, 2003), Laura Miller, review of Fat Land.

Satya Web site,http://www.satyamag.com/ (November 20, 2006), "Too Fat for Our Drive down Good: The Satya Interview account Greg Critser."*