simple evidence consistent with the existence of a link between the consumption of fruit and vegetables and high well … portions of fruit and vegetables. The pattern is remarkably robust to adjustment for a large number of other demographic …

There is insufficient research on the direct effects of food advertising on children's diet and diet-related health … restaurants and soft drinks to children across the top 55 designated-market areas to estimate the relation between exposure to … food advertising on television and children's food consumption and body weight. Our results suggest that soft drink and …

. 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 …

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test …

low-income children: fruit and vegetable price elasticity for BMI is estimated to be 0.25 for the full sample and 0 …This study examines the relationship between child weight and fast food and fruit and vegetable prices and the … price and outlet density data at the zip code level. FE results show that higher fruit and vegetable prices are …

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 …

We utilize clinical records of successive visits by children to pediatric clinics in Indianapolis to estimate the … effects on their body mass of environmental changes near their homes. We compare results for fixed-residence children with … reversed in the FE estimates. The recreational amenities that appear to lower children's BMI were fitness areas, kickball …

.js?config=AM_HTMLorMML-fullquot;gt;lt;/scriptgt;In our opinion, the trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated accurately. We use five models to estimate … the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and adolescents ages 2-19 born 1941-2006 on the basis of …