Greg Critser (July 18, 1954,
Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville ( ) is a city in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located along the Ohio River west of Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Weirton–Steubenville m ...
– January 13, 2018)
was an
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on medicine, science, food and health. His work has appeared in periodicals ranging from the ''
New York Times
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'' to the ''Times of London'', and from ''Harper's'' to the ''New Yorker''. He is the author of the best seller ''Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World'' (Houghton Mifflin 2003), and the award-winning ''Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Minds, Lives and Bodies'' (Houghton 2005). His most recent book, ''Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging'', was published by Random House in January 2010. He lectured widely at universities and medical schools, and his blog could be found at Scientificblogging.com.
Books
In 2003, Houghton Mifflin published ''
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World'' ().
In 2006, Houghton Mifflin published ''Generation Rx: How prescription drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies'' () about the
pharmaceutical industry
The pharmaceutical industry is a medical industry that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical goods such as medications and medical devices. Medications are then administered to (or self-administered by) patients for curing ...
and its interaction with the American public.
In January 2010, Random House published ''Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging''.
References
External links
Greg Critser's blog- at Scientific Blogging
1954 births
2018 deaths
American health and wellness writers
American medical journalists
American science writers
People from Steubenville, Ohio
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