Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially …

The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid … Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various state-level variables have on body mass index and obesity. These …, display many of the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend. These findings control for …

Obesity, which has increased in most developed countries in the past few decades, is the result of genetics …, environment, and individual choices. Economics is useful for studying the individual choices that lead to obesity, explanations … for the recent rise in obesity, the treatment options for obesity, and the costs and consequences of obesity for the …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …

obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …