When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in … BMI and life satisfaction are concentrated among those with healthy weight. Viewed in its totality, the pattern of results … find that calorie mandates lead to a small but statistically significant reduction in average BMI of 0.2 kg/m2 (1.5 pounds …

Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological … progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of …. We propose the economics of happiness as an approach to study the phenomenon. Based on proxy measures for experienced …

-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our … nutritional guidelines as well as the design and implementation of targeted obesity-reduction policies that recognize that being … influence action in all countries in the Caribbean that lack policies to address obesity. …

membership and eating disorders. We investigate a possible causal link between sororities and weight-related behaviors and eating … methods, we confirm that sororities exert a negative effect on the weight-related behaviors of their members. However, females …

This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …

results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …