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    Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: The Decline of the Average American
    Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: The Decline of the Average American
    Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: The Decline of the Average American
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    Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: The Decline of the Average American

    By Peter Strupp and Alan Dingman

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    The world's lone superpower...supreme guardian of democracy...and home of the blithely uninformed and epidemically obese. Welcome to America -- pull up a chair, click on the tube, and grab a donut. Concerned Citizen Peter Strupp is shocked and bothered by what he sees. It seems we're not as thin, smart, and good-looking as we like to think. Packed with real facts and statistics, Fat, Dumb, and Ugly takes readers on an eye-opening, laugh-out-loud, and at times horrifying tour of the numbers that shape our country:

    Percentage of adults in the United States who are overweight: 64.5

    Percentage of Americans who believe they have actually spoken with Satan: 5

    Percentage of voters for whom Saturday Night Live and MTV are primary sources of information about presidential candidates: 16

    Average number of pink lawn flamingos sold annually in America: 250,000

    A wickedly hilarious and addictive cultural snapshot of our nation of conspicuous consumers, fast-food fanatics, and dumbed-down dolts, Fat, Dumb, and Ugly casts a revealing spotlight on John Q. Public, the average American -- and it's not always pretty.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJun 15, 2010
    ISBN9781451603903
    Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: The Decline of the Average American

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    Fat, Dumb, and Ugly - Peter Strupp

    FAT, DUMB, and UGLY

    The Decline of the Average American

    PETER STRUPP

    SIMON & SCHUSTER

    Rockefeller Center

    1230 Avenue of the Americas

    New York, NY 10020

    Copyright © 2004 by Lark Productions, LLC

    All rights reserved,

    including the right of reproduction

    in whole or in part in any form.

    First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition 2004

    Simon & Schuster and colophon are

    registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    For information about special discounts for bulk purchases,

    please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-800-456-6798

    or business@simonandschuster.com

    DESIGNED BY KATY RIEGEL

    ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN DINGMAN

    Manufactured in the United States of America

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Strupp, Peter.

    Fat, dumb & ugly : the decline of the average American / Peter Strupp.

    1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.

    p.     cm.

    1. United States—Social conditions—1980—Statistics. 2. United States—Civilization—1970—Statistics. 3. National characteristics, American—Statistics. 4. Obesity—United States—Statistics. 5. Consumption (Economics)—United States—Statistics.

    I. Title: Fat, dumb, and ugly. II. Title.

    HN60.S87  2004

    306′.0973′021—dc22        2003065540

    ISBN 0-7432-4945-3

    ISBN 978-1-451-60390-3

    FAT

    Percentage of adults in the United States who are overweight: 64.5 (about 127 million)

    Number of these who are considered obese: 60 million

    Number who are considered severely obese: 9 million

    Percentage of Americans considered overweight in 1980: 46

    Percentage of

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