This paper reviews previous cost studies of overweight and obesity in the UK. It proposes a method for estimating the … economic and health costs of overweight and obesity in the UK which could also be used in other countries. Costs of obesity … was used to calculate the mortality and morbidity cost of overweight and obesity. Population attributable fractions for …

The high and rapidly rising adult obesity rates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are ….S. In contrast, death rates from circulator diseases have a strong negative trend, but rising obesity rates almost certainly … have slowed this trend. This paper focuses on obesity-related mortality from diabetes and circulatory diseases and …

Health officials, scientists, and the public are increasingly concerned about the overweight and obesity epidemics and … their negative consequences. While the effects of both individual and policy factors on overweight and obesity are far …-reaching, they are poorly understood. Overweight and obesity have become a major public health problem in South Korea, along with its …

income contribute to increasing obesity among low-income families. In the general adult female population, the prevalence of … obesity decreases substantially as family income increases. However, this relationship is not necessarily causal, as numerous … estimate the causal effect of family income on obesity. I show that increasing family income has a positive effect on weight …

generate revenue that governments can use to address the obesity-caused health and economic burden. Two beverage demand systems …

of the thin subsidy. Results suggest there is scope for the design of a fiscal food policy to combat obesity and poor …

The popular press has triumphantly announced that the cause of the obesity epidemic is “junk food.” After a moment …’s reflection, however, it seems likely that the true causal structure of the obesity epidemic can be neither single-equation nor … univariate. Therefore, while the hypothesis that “junk food” is the cause of obesity has little a priori plausibility, these …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether lesbians have higher rates of overweight and obesity than women of other … sexual orientations.METHODS: We compared population estimates of overweight and obesity across sexual orientation groups … obesity (OR=2.47; 95% CI=1.19, 5.09) as heterosexual women. Bisexuals and women who reported their sexual orientation as …