New Book by 'Fast Food Nation' Author Eric Schlosser
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Eric Schlosser's 2001 book "Fast Food Nation" awakened people to the truths of the fast food industry. Now, he's focusing on children in his new book, "Chew on This: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Fast Food." The Washington Post has an interview with Schlosser about the book.
Well, what we tried to do is take the same basic themes but look at them through the eyes of kids. So we spent time with a young man, a young teenager, who was undergoing gastric bypass surgery, in the section on obesity in kids.
Q& A - Trying to Enlighten Kids on the Perils of Fast-Food
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