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 … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …

risk of obesity. No effects are found among women. …

risk of obesity. No effects are found among women. …

The present paper is an attempt to examine the levels of deprivation of rural people in terms of their access to basic … amenities like, housing, drinking water, sanitation etc. And also it evaluates the degree of relative disadvantage of rural … locational disadvantage of the rural people. The paper follows the framework of Sen’s Capability Approach to development. …

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

Although a large body of research demonstrates an association between income and obesity, the causal nature of this … Health Survey, we examine the causal effect of income on adult body mass index (BMI) and obesity in Canada using an … negative effect of income on BMI and obesity for more educated people. Our findings suggest that household income is …

subsamples stratified by living area reveal that the SES gaps of obesity are generally larger for urban residents than rural …This paper presents a systematic analysis of the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on overweight and obesity in … China and investigates how and why the SES-obesity gradient differs with age. Using a longitudinal sample drawn from the …

that are relevant in the context of immigration and acculturation, namely length of exposure to the high obesity culture …

job. OLS and probit models are estimated, using dummy variables for overweight and obesity as the dependent variables …