Greg Critser

Greg Critser (July 18, 1954, Steubenville, Ohio – January 13, 2018)[1] was an American writer on medicine, science, food and health. His work has appeared in periodicals ranging from the New York Times 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 (ISBN 0-618-38060-4).

In 2006, Houghton Mifflin published Generation Rx: How prescription drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies (ISBN 0-618-39313-7) about the pharmaceutical industry and its interaction with the American public.

In January 2010, Random House published Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging.

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gollark: It's less complex for them as the code is already there and written with a nice API, and "less efficient" how? Slightly more space on headers?
gollark: You could easily store the directory entry bits as an SQLite table.
gollark: This is an excellent use case for SQLite, which would allow quick lookups in the metadata bit and not require coming up with a fiddly custom binary format.
gollark: As you can see from the file format docs (https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format), it's basically big compressed blobs plus directory entry metadata and stuff.

References
  1. https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-greg-critser-20180119-story.html
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