heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and … validated survey scale. Using the obesity rate in the assigned installation county as a summary measure of its obesity …-related environments, we show that exposure to counties with higher obesity rates increases the likelihood of obesity among less patient …

Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Because smoking is subject … to heavy government intervention, understanding the effect of smoking on obesity is important in determining the extent …. Our preferred estimate suggests reduced smoking accounts for 6% of the concurrent rise in obesity …

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

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

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), obesity (BMI 30), class 2 obesity (BMI 35), class 3 obesity (BMI 40 …

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 …

variation in Miss America and Miss USA beauty pageant winners. We show that there was more front-page newspaper coverage and …

Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of …