Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in …

around the 1970s. In sum, the creeping nature of the obesity epidemic is evident, as the technological and lifestyle changes …

This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-4 years). Data … (including body mass index and obesity) controlling for a rich set of child, parent, and family characteristics. The findings … indicate that, among boys, obesity is associated with reduced verbal skills, social skills, motor skills, and activities of …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For … disadvantaged children, obesity rates are closer to 20%. In this paper, we first examine the impact of various measures of …

is classified as obese. For example, when the more accurate measures of fatness are used, the gap in obesity between …, the gap in obesity between African American and white women is cut in half (with African American women still …Virtually all social science research related to obesity uses body mass index (BMI), usually calculated using self …

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

populations above mortality-minimizing bodyweight is not clearly greater in countries with higher overweight and obesity rates (as …