number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for …, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations … have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in …

political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in other areas of epidemiology and use latent class analysis to evaluate … alternative measures of obesity in the absence of a gold standard. Using data from a representative sample of US adults we show …

consumption and obesity) – both at the individual and country levels. The main findings are: (i) SAHS regressions provide clear … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …

We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other … analysis of the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes. …

regression indicated that the risk ratio (RR) for all crashes was significantly higher for drivers in the obesity Class II and …. Similarly, the multivariate Cox Proportional Hazard model results showed that crash risk was significantly higher for obesity … class II (BMI 35 to <40; relative risk (RR) = 1.47, P = 0.02) with weaker evidence of increased crash risk for obesity class …