Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to the “obesity epidemic” by making …” commodities would contribute to reducing obesity rates. This paper makes three contributions. First, we review evidence from the … literature on the impacts on food consumption and obesity resulting from subsidies applied in the past to production or …

Poor diets and rising obesity rates dominate the current food, nutrition and health policy debate in many countries …, including Spain. Despite the increasing obesity rate in Spain, there has been no known published research in Spain that has … studied the economic factors affecting obesity prevalence. The main aim of our work is analysing the relevance of economic …