overestimate their 5-year risks of a heart attack and a stroke. Obese individuals are thus aware of some but not all obesity …

of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of …

We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social … interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight … the correlation between satisfaction and own BMI is initially positive, but turns negative after some threshold …

obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … responsiveness to fast-food advertising is greater for PBF than for BMI. Males are more responsive to advertising than females …

Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data … change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by gender and ethnicity born 1882-1986. Methods: We use loess additive … regression models to estimate age and trend effects of BMI values of US-born black and white adults measured between 1959 and …

In order to explain the growth of obesity in industrialized and transition economies, a behavioral approach to food … factors and changes in the composition of diet therefore forms the basis for weight gain and, in the long run, obesity. …

used to revisit the impact of body weight on wages, using body mass index (BMI) as the continuum of groups, finding …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … that 19th century US black and white BMIs were distributed symmetrically; neither wasting nor obesity was common …. Nineteenth century BMI values were also greater for blacks than whites. There was a positive relationship between 19th century …

social comparisons influencing individual Body Mass Index (BMI). I find that in particular the average BMI of individuals in … the same county-age-gender-cell as the respective individual influences BMI. Evidence from quantile regressions points … becoming slimmer as a result of preferences for deviant behaviour. Life satisfaction regressions show a positive effect for BMI …