Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on food consumption as part of the wicked problem of obesity … new insights into the trans-disciplinary and dynamic circumstances surrounding food consumption and obesity and highlights …

Purpose – Challenges “easy” solutions regarding obesity amongst kids and youth, such as banning of advertising. Pleads … for “new thinking”, including use of Social Marketing in children’s preventative health practice, as well as for … participate in reacting to the problem obesity poses. Findings – The paper argues that there is no reliable proof that kids …

Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …

pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching … months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … education. Informal childcare at 9 months also has harmful effects on child weight, but again only for children of more educated …