While there is increasing interest in reducing obesity, relatively few of these efforts focus on rural communities. A … multi-tiered model to reduce obesity risk factors was developed and implemented to change food behavior and health awareness … increase in, a) obesity as cancer risk awareness and b) food nutrition awareness. Also, increased food nutrition awareness …

This paper seeks to understand the effect of environment on obesity by studying the effect of acculturation on the … health of a foreign population – who experience a relatively low prevalence of obesity – after they have been introduced to … rates of obesity. Acculturation for the purpose of this study is defined as a voluntary or involuntary adaptation of food …

funds to combat obesity, particularly sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). A growing number of studies have examined the … obesity intervention strategies. The tax is estimated to generate $5.8 billion a year in revenue and is found to be regressive …

International students offer an unique opportunity to study the extent to which environment causes obesity. Because … conditions in and around the university campus we argue that the prevalence of obesity in the surrounding area is plausibly … universities across the United States. We use this data to study the effect of prevalence of obesity in a particular region on the …

Overweight and obesity are becoming serious issues in many developing countries. Since undernutrition is not completely … Indonesia using longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family and Life Survey, covering the period between 1993 and 2007. Obesity … contribute to increasing obesity. Education, income, and marital status are significant determinants that influence nutritional …

Sugar-sweetened beverages have emerged as one of the primary targets in the battle against obesity. Understanding the … differential impacts of soda taxes for different obesity categories (e.g., moderate vs. morbidly obese) is critical to assess their … full potential to not only reduce obesity rates, but to target those individuals who have the most to gain from a reduction …

Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to the ―obesity epidemic‖ by making …‖ commodities would contribute to reducing obesity rates. In this paper we use an equilibrium displacement model to estimate and … calories would be the most efficient as obesity policy. A tax on calories would have the lowest deadweight loss per pound of …