Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing scholarly and public policy attention. While many studies have suggested that infant breastfeeding protects against childhood obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship...

Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing scholarly and public policy attention. While many studies have suggested that infant breastfeeding protects against childhood obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship...

Medical and the social science disciplines, together with the global bodies (e.g., The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and The World Health Organization) focusing on human health conditions, agree that the rising obesity epidemic (the US, worldwide) and related ill-health outcomes (e.g.,...