Greg Critser, whose writing on obesity has landed him on the New York Times Bestseller List, is coming to Grand Valley State University on October 27 to give a talk called "The Obesity Revolution."
Critser is a longtime chronicler of the modern food and pharmaceutical industries. He is the author of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, (Houghton Mifflin), which the American Diabetes Association called "the definitive journalistic account of the modern obesity epidemic." His columns on the subject have appeared as cover stories in Harper's, Washington Monthly and Worth. His essay for Harper's, "Let Them Eat Fat," was named one of the most important science articles of 2000, and was included in Best American Science Writing 2001. His newspaper columns on the politics of medicine appear in USA Today, where he is a member of the paper's board of contributors, the Los Angeles Times, the London Times, the Guardian and the Observer. His next book, One Nation, Under Pills, will be published in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin.
The Autumn Health Forums are a series of discussions that focus attention on health care topics of interest to both the general public and health care professionals. The forums are intended to provide an informative, interesting and sometimes provocative way to explore some of the leading health care issues of the day. An informative question-and-answer session follows each session.
The forums are from noon to 1 p.m. in the DeVos Center's Loosemore Auditorium on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus. For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/ahf on the Web or call (800) 690-0314 or (616) 331-7180. The forums are free and open to the public.
Upcoming Forums
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Mobilizing Communities to Promote Health and Social Justice
Speaker: Elias Vasquez, RN, Ph.D., FAAN Wednesday, Nov. 17
- Community Health Improvement: A Call to Action Speaker: Kent Bottles, MD, CEO Wednesday, Dec. 8
The forums are hosted by Grand Rapids Medical Education and Research Center for Health Professions and Grand Valley State University Continuing Education. They are sponsored by Saint Mary's Mercy Medical Center and Spectrum Health. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
