health outcomes, including obesity. Contributing factors include low levels of income and education; time-poor single parent …

After a deep review of the main economic studies and applications about the emerging problem of obesity, this paper …

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …

Obesity accounts for medical costs and lost productivity totaling more than $100 billion per year. Two important … economic factors have been forwarded to explain obesity trends. The first is that healthy, palatable foods are no longer …, convenient, high-calorie foods and the lack of a desire to eat a healthy diet may explain obesity trends. However, they imply …

macronutrient intake and physical activity to rising population weight remains unknown. Research on the economics of obesity … increases in carbohydrates are most strongly and positively associated with increases in obesity prevalence even when …

Whereas everyone recognizes that increasing obesity rates worldwide are driven by a complex set of interrelated factors …