This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross … that in all three countries obesity has a negative and significant effect on the subjective well being of individuals. For …

In response to the growing burden of obesity, public primary prevention programs against obesity have been widely …-effective strategy to cope with the obesity epidemic. We examine this question in a simulation model based on the results of the M ….O.B.I.L.I.S program, a German lifestyle intervention to reduce obesity, which is directed on the high-risk group of people who are already …

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … society's mean welfare level, does not exist, on principle, in the decomposition approach. Present author's own calculations … levels of the decomposition approach can be interpreted as upper limits for the “true” level of poverty, and, conversely, the …

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a … between health and body mass index is nonlinear. (3) Underweight strengthens individual health and severe obesity has a clear …