Public health agencies face considerable challenges trying to prevent overweight and obesity in society, primarily … Commentary shows how law can be used as a tool to prevent overweight and obesity (see Table). The tools discussed in this article … restaurants Despite the undoubted political risks, should public health agencies push for strong measures to control obesity …

In this paper I discuss overweight and obesity and their repercussions on health deficit accumulation and longevity in …-control, income, food prices, energy density, and medical progress in explaining obesity and to develop a test on whether obesity is …

Implementation of evidence-based interventions to control obesity is regarded as a public health priority. In this … effective and cost-effective intervention for obesity prevention and control. Regarding nutrition labeling, current evidence … index (BMI) and obesity prevalence, nutrition labeling is considered a cost-effective intervention in many settings. Further …

obesity epidemics? This report briefly examines the evidence base on unhealthy diets, including the associated burden on … with the food industry at the supply-demand interface, firmer regulations when public-private incentives are misaligned …

children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

The incidence of young Latino children obesity is a public health concern. Among 5-year-olds, 16% of Latinos are obese … compared with 10% of whites. Obesity disparities between non-Latino white and Latino children increase significantly with age …, and TV watching for explaining obesity disparities between 5-year-old white and Latino children. Also, the long …

I study the economic value of obesity - a seemingly inconsequential but unhealthy status symbol in poor countries …. Randomizing decision-makers in Kampala, Uganda to view weight-manipulated portraits, I make four findings. First, obesity is … real-stakes experiment involving loan officers, the obesity premium is comparable to raising borrower self …