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I want to add another title that is related to _Fat Land_; _Fast Food
Nation_ looks at the fast food phenomena, and not just in terms of the lack
of nutrition.  Very interesting read - I can't keep the library copy on the
shelves.

Diane Gallagher-Hayashi
Teacher-Librarian
Stelly's School
Saanich School District (63)
Saanichton, British Columbia
Canada
Diane_Hayashi@sd63.bc.ca
daichan@islandnet.com

"I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a
gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am...I, am a librarian!"
The Mummy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony C. Doyle" <tdoyle@MUHSD.K12.CA.US>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: Summer Reading for US!


> For some not-so-light summer reading:
>
> _Reading the Naked Truth: Literacy, Legislation, and Lies_ by Gerald
> Coles
> _Big Brother and National Reading Curriculum_ by Richard Allington et
> al.
> Both books take close looks at the National Reading Panel (NRP) report
> "Teaching Children to Read."  They are both highly critical of the
> panel's methods and conclusion and raise lots of troubling questions
> about current federal legislation and its effects on literacy education.
> Allington's book includes a chapter by Stephen Krashen.  The current
> rush to get "hooked on phonics" could have serious implications for
> library funding and staffing so I think these books are must-reads.
>
> For a non-library related book I recommend _Fat Land: How Americans
> Became the Fattest People in the World_ by Greg Critser.  The author
> pays special attention to juvenile obesity and its attendant health
> problems (e.g. the juvenile diabetes epidemic).  He discusses the
> explosion of the fast food industry and the super-sizing phenomenon, the
> lack of emphasis on P.E. in schools, outsourcing food services in
> schools, and the sweetener high fructose corn syrup.  He looks at the
> biology, psychology and sociology of fat.  As I approach forty at an
> alarming speed (both in age and waist size) I found this book
> fascinating and disturbing.  You will never look at a bottle of soda the
> same way.
> ----
> Tony Doyle, Librarian
> Livingston High School, Livingston, CA
> tdoyle@muhsd.k12.ca.us
> <Http://www.lhs.muhsd.k12.ca.us/library/index.htm>
> "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.  Just get
> people to stop reading them."-- Ray Bradbury
>
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