Obesity is an important problem of public health, which is often initiated by unhealthy behaviours during adolescence. Food habits among young people are generally influenced by their peers, the so-called "peer pressure", as well as other hazardous consumptions such as alcohol, tobacco and...

Feminist critique has yet to deconstruct the new 'superwoman' ideal: the modern woman who can and must have everything, but who, in reality, is never good enough. This media myth is fertile ground for harmful practices that focus on a woman's own body and of course for specific consumerist...

In this paper we use panel data regressions to investigate the determinants of vegetarianism in various countries over time. Using national level aggregate data, we construct a panel consisting of 116 country-time observations. We find that there is a negative relationship between income and...