With populations aging and the epidemic of obesity spreading across the globe, global health risks are shifting toward …, glucose and inflammation - vary with economic development and, within each country, with age, gender and education. As obesity …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … current obesity, we project distributions of obesity when cohorts were age 25. To these distributions we apply death rates by … current and age-25 obesity status observed in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-2006. Projections of …

's enlistment standards for weight-for-height and percent body fat. The implications of rising obesity for the U.S. military are …

Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a … nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self …-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can be influenced by obesity indirectly through the channel of obesity …

supermarket access as policy instruments to address childhood obesity …

There are several ways to measure fatness and obesity, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The primary measure … for tracking the prevalence of obesity has historically been body mass index (BMI). This paper compares long-run trends in … the prevalence of obesity when obesity is defined using skinfold thickness instead of body mass index (BMI), using data …