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The Sweet Life : The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood
Gertler, Paul J.; Gračner, Tadeja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and arthritis. It also decreased...
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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Coate, Douglas - 1983
has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …
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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
Herbst, Chris M. - 2009
. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …
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The Relationship Between Neighborhood Quality and Obesity Among Children
Sen, Bisakha - 2009
whether maternal perceptions of neighborhood quality affect children's bodyweight outcomes, and whether racial and ethnic … quality is not significantly related to children's bodyweight. However, one particular characteristic, namely whether or not … robust and significant effects on the BMI-percentile of the children, though it has less robust effects on the risk of …
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Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood
Cawley, John - 2008
correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …
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Understanding Overeating and Obesity
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2010
The combination of economic and biological factors is likely to result in overeating, in the current environment of cheap and readily available food. This propensity is shown using a "dual-decision" approach where choices reflect the interaction between two parts of the brain: a "deliberative"...
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Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss
Cawley, John - 2009
Obesity rates in the U.S. have doubled since 1980. Given the medical, social, and financial costs of obesity, a large percentage of Americans are attempting to lose weight at any given time but the vast majority of weight loss attempts fail. Researchers continue to search for safe and effective...
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The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain
Currie, Janet - 2009
children and the weight gain of over 3 million pregnant women. We find that among 9th grade children, a fast food restaurant … school children and mothers, the presence of non-fast food restaurants is uncorrelated with weight outcomes. Moreover …
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Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2007
The prevalence of obesity has increased rapidly since the mid-1970s, following a period of relative stability. This study examines past patterns and projects future prevalence rates of obesity and severe obesity among US adults through 2020. Trends in body mass index (BMI), overweight (BMI 25),...
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Nutrition Labels and Obesity
Variyam, Jayachandran N. - 2006
The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) imposed significant changes in the information about calories and nutrients that manufacturers of packaged foods must provide to consumers. This paper tests whether the release of this information impacted body weight and obesity among American...
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