Part 66 (1/2)

105 introduction of American fast food outlets and climbing obesity rates

Jeannine Stein, ”Wealthy Nations with a Lot of Fast Food: Destined to Be Obese?,” Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2011.

106 Consequently, food prices went down significantly

Charles Kenny, ”The Global Obesity Bomb,” BloombergBusinessweek, June 4, 2012.

107 precisely with the large average weight gains and increased obesity

Dreifus, ”A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity.”

108 skimpily clad s.e.x symbol was.h.i.+ng a car

Eric Noe, ”How Well Does Paris Sell Burgers?,” ABC News, June 29, 2005, abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=893867&page=1#.UGMPQI40jdk.

109 equivalent of adding an extra one billion people

Matt McGrath, ”Global Weight Gain More Damaging Than Rising Numbers,” BBC, June 20, 2012.

110 first national circulation magazines and the first silent films

Johannes Malkmes, American Consumer Culture and Its Society: From F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s Modernism to Bret Easton Ellis' 1980s Blank Fiction (Hamburg: Diplomica, 2011), p. 44.

111 new products like automobiles and radios

Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work (New York: Putnam, 1995), p. 22.

112 70 percent of U.S. homes by the end of the 1920s