Obesity is still on the rise, leading to high costs for the obese individual itself but also for society. We analyze … results suggest that dining with obese peers increases the probability of obesity while calorie labeling decreases the …

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 …

Concerns about child obesity have raised questions about the quality of meals served in the National School Lunch …

health. Our results show that discount functions are quasi-hyperbolic in shape, and that obesity and drinking are positively … related to the discount rate. Anti-obesity policy, therefore, would be best directed to informing individuals as to the long …

supportive of lifestyles that could reduce residents risk for obesity and cancer in a small community to provide point of sale …

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