Weekend Reading: Chew on This - Fast Food Nation for the Grade School Set

While parents are campaigning against junk food, Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser offers kids a digestible (though hardly palatable) look at the fast food industry in his new book Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food.

Written with co-author Charles Wilson, the book adapts the lessons of Fast Food Nation for a kid-friendly look at the history of the fast food industry. The book looks at the nutritional content of a fast food meal, follows the 37-day life of a pre-McNugget chicken, and reveals how the fast food industry has studied child behavior and tailored its advertising and packaging (hello, Happy Meal toys) to attract a child audience. It also includes great information about the links between obesity, french fries and that Super Size Coke.

Buy it for your kids; read it as a family.

Availble at Chew on This.

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