This paper’s objective is to investigate the associations between obesity and Food-Related Lifestyles (FRL) in five … if BMI > 30. Logistic regressions were fitted for the aggregated sample and then by country with obese as dependent and … socio-demographics and FRL were included as independents. The prevalence of obesity in the five countries is 22%. Europeans …

Policies that aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity have been high on the policy agenda for many years - see, for … example, DHSC (2020) and Dimbleby (2021). Understanding the costs associated with obesity is important for informing policy …. Bell and Deyes (2022) have recently produced what are, to date, the most detailed estimates of the costs of adult obesity …

anthropometric and socioeconomic characteristics. An additional unit of husband's (wife's) BMI can be compensated by a 0.3%-increase …

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which … - while waist circumference generally gives rise to larger peer effects than BMI. We also provide evidence that parental …

consumption and obesity) - both at the individual and country levels. The main findings are: (i) SAHS regressions provide clear … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …

The macroeconomic effect of the obesity epidemic on environmental degradation was examined for panel data from thirty … empirical results indicate that the obesity epidemic, electricity consumption, and urbanisation encourage environmental … degradation by increasing CO2 emissions, while economic growth decreases them. Moreover, we identify that the obesity epidemic …

We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are … economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency … obesity trends, and conclude with a brief review of current policies to reduce and prevent excessive body weight both in …

political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … measures and information from nutritional diaries, we also investigate the effects of maternal employment on obesity's main …